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Overview:
TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers, sellers, and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by thirdparty sellers.
Job Title: Applied Scientist II
Duration: 5 Months
Location: Seattle, WA 98109
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 Client's products and services.
Additional Skills:
- Python: required, level: Expert, Last Used: Currently Using.
- Experience:
- 4-6 years
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects
Please describe the team the TEMP will be joining. What projects do they work on? What is the team culture like?
- Lead scoring, machine learning
- multiple milestones to support region to enable capability MLM to find potential customers (marketing stakeholders, internals sales team)
- Team, 2 BIE, 3 fulltime employees (strategy analytics team shared service)
- GDO global demand generation
- models (binary classifications)
- Reason for the request
- LOA
- 2 projects are currently at risk given her absence: a) MRC GCR MAL-MI prioritization; b) CS GLBL MQL ML modeling.
Typical Day in the Role:
What will a typical day in the life of this role look like once the TEMP is ramped up?
- Wiki meetings, stand up process overview on what other projects that are going on, team meetings weekly
- 1:1 meeting
- Connect with business team, meeting stakeholder's requirements to include in model design, pulling data with internal communication with BI, then try to make a prototype of model
Opportunity for conversion?
- Not at this time, possibly more in the future
- Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
In a competitive market, why should a candidate accept this role instead of another that is similar?
- Scientist roles
- Rising team, accomplish a lot in the last year, raised the bar delivering results, got recognition from multiple teams
- Number one machine learning team
- High visibility among stakeholders
- Communicate with different stakeholders
- Collaboration
- Exploratory
- Team culture is balanced no micromanagement, fun activities
Candidate Requirements
What leadership principles stand out to you for this role?
- Ownership
- Dive deep
- Earning trust
How many years of experience do you require or prefer?
- 3-5 years
- Supervised vs non supervised machine learning
- Balance between depth and breadth
- Predictive modeling
What degrees, certifications, and skills do you require or prefer?
- Master's degree
What qualifications would a candidate possess that would make them the best vs an average candidate?
- AWS experience
- Linux experience
- NLP experience
What are some red flags that would immediately make you disqualify a candidate?
- Only do AP testing, new grads, if they don't build data models from end to end
What KPIs will you and the candidate use to measure success?
- Finishing projects
- Multiple checkpoints on model design
- Delivery of models
- Progressive partnership
Top 3 must-have hard skills
- Python proficiency required
- Write production codes (algorithms SD 1 code bar)
- SQL proficiency
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
