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Senior Data Scientist
Hybrid - West Des Moines, IA | Full-Time
About Tractor Zoom
We are committed to helping leaders in agriculture make data-driven decisions when it comes to buying, selling, financing, and insuring heavy equipment. Tailored to reach business’ unique needs, the Tractor Zoom solution suite utilizes data and technology to impart equipment insights that are honest, accessible, and actionable. We empower Farm Credit Associations, Farm Service Agencies, banks, equipment dealerships, auctioneers, and farmers, and fuel their growth.
We’re Looking for an ‘A’ Player
We are looking for a driven, curious, and talented Senior Data Scientist to join our growing TZAI team and help deliver new data products for our customers. Data is at the heart of everything we do and you will be able to make an immediate impact for our company! This role will be responsible for developing cutting-edge predictive analytics and machine learning models to help our customers make better, data-driven decisions. There is significant room for you to develop models and analytics ranging from time-series forecasting to Generative AI to computer vision. You will regularly work with our customers, designers, and engineers to build game-changing products used by leaders in the agriculture industry. You will have the unique opportunity to work across the entire data product lifecycle from customer discovery, exploratory data analysis, model development, and model deployment. If you have always wanted to spend more time experimenting and building then this is the place for you!
Responsibilities:
- Through exploration and experimentation, identify opportunities to solve customer problems using machine learning and predictive analytics
- Experiment, build, test, and deploy machine learning models and other analytic solutions
- Develop and maintain processes for continuous model evaluation, testing, and re-training
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field (preferred) or equivalent work experience.
- 5 years in Data Science or related fields
- 5 years of programming experience (Python preferred)
- Proven experience deploying, testing, and monitoring models at an enterprise level utilizing different frameworks (e.g. sklearn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
- Expertise in at least one subject area: computer vision, time series forecasting, deep learning, predictive analytics
- Experience with cloud providers (AWS preferred).
What will set you apart?
- Experience planning, executing, and automating product testing using A/B, multi-armed bandit, or other methodologies
- Experience developing & deploying machine learning models in Databricks
- Previous Data Science experience in the agriculture and heavy equipment industry
- Strong ability to communicate technical information and develop products for a non-technical audience
- A bias towards action, ability to rapidly prototype, and routinely seek feedback.
- A desire to work with a small, agile team.
Benefits:
- 80% Health, Vision and Dental Insurance Covered
- 401k Program
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive Salary
- Company Stock
- Performance Based Culture
- Hybrid - 4 days in office and 1 day remote
Tractor Zoom Culture
We are a small but mighty team of driven, out-of-the-box thinkers that are hungry for information. We are not only passionate about identifying customer pain points but inspired to solve them. Our values unite us and help us work together toward our common goals. We’re a customer first organization knowing they are ultimately the end users of our products and technology.
If you’re interested in making a difference and seeing your efforts directly impact the trajectory of a company. Come join us!
