What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied Scientist III position at TekWissen LLC?
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. We are a community of 50 million who think-and feel-differently about investing. Together, we're changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping investors achieve their goals has been our main reason for existence. At Client, we're built differently. Our client is investor-owned, meaning that we're owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients. Therefore, your success adds to ours, so you're surrounded by people who care about the same things. With no other parties to answer to, we make decisions-including keeping investing costs as low as possible-with your needs in mind. Because of our unique structure, your goals align with our goals.
Position: Applied Scientist III
Location: New York, NY 10001
Duration: 5 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Applied scientists are specialists with deep expertise in areas such as machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, knowledge acquisition, etc.
- They apply scientific principles in their area of expertise and related fields to: (a) assess the feasibility and timeline of new initiatives requiring significant inventions, and (b) develop new algorithms or enhance existing algorithms for significantly improving the customer experience/impact.
- They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing the state-of-the-art for improving the client's products and services.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop AI solutions for Music Personalization;
- Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end;
- Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses;
- Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders;
- Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field
Typical Day in the Role:
Daily Schedule:
- M-F 1st shift with possible OT
- Extension? No
- Conversion? No
Candidate Requirements:
- Years of experience: Minimum of 10 years, preferred 15 years. Equivalent of an L6; Portfolios not required, but will be welcomed
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6 years of applied research experience
- 5 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C , Python or related language
- Experience with cloud based large scale model deployment
KPI:
- Improvement of machine learning model accuracy
- Speed of model deployment
Leadership Principles:
- Deliver Results
- Think Big
Top 3 must-have hard skills
- Machine Learning
- Programming
- Cloud Computing Experience
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
