Job opening - Data Scientist at Kaggle (San Francisco, CA)

As a Kaggle data scientist, you will be crucial to the company’s mission. You will work with customers to prepare their competitions, from problem identification to data cleaning and exploration, and build tools to automate this process. At the end of the competition you'll verify the winning models, and integrate those models into our customers’ operations. Your role will go to the heart of Kaggle’s value proposition to clients.

As a Kaggle data scientist, you will have access to a huge range of data sets and customers. Over the last year, we have worked on data sets relating to:

• galaxy shape measurement to help NASA and the ESA map dark matter;


• the reliability of used cars, to work out which are likely to be lemons;


• genetic markers, to predict viral load in HIV; and


• grocery store visits, to help dunhumby predict the timing of future visits and the amount likely to be spent.
  

You will also get to see first-hand which techniques work on which data sets, and to hang out with some of the world’s greatest data scientists.

On a typical day, a Kaggle data scientist will:

• work with a customer to structure their competition


• roller blade down the Embarcadero


• read and discuss thrillers like Chris Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning


• create a benchmark in R / Matlab / Python


• write an evaluation metric in C#


• build data anonymization tools


• correspond with the Kaggle community on our forums


• explore the winning solution to one of our competitions

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