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About McKinsey's Scientific AI Team
Our team is seeking a highly skilled Principal Data Scientist to join our global scientific AI team. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in the creation/dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge and proprietary assets.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Leverage advanced mathematics, statistics, and machine learning to derive structure and knowledge from raw data sets across various industry sectors.
- Develop and own the data science and analytics roadmap of client-facing analytics assets across a broad range of topics.
- Mentor data scientists across multiple projects, ensuring statistical validity, training data, and overall analytics methodological approach align with client and asset development objectives.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Master's degree with 8 years or PhD degree with 7 years of relevant experience in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent experience with experience in research.
- Thought leadership or people leadership experience (e.g., managed project teams or direct reports).
- Experience in client delivery with direct client contact.
- Proven experience applying machine learning techniques to solve business problems.
- Strong programming experience in Python and the relevant analytics libraries (e.g., pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, statsmodels, pymc, pytorch/tf/keras).
