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At Hiya we are on a mission to secure the voice call with trust, identity, and intelligence. We're protecting everyday people from spam and fraud calls, connecting businesses with their customers, and helping mobile carriers secure their networks for all. In early 2016, brought its Hiya Protect product to market through Samsung Smart Call, AT&T Call Protect (now Active Armor) the first-ever network-based spam solution, and the Hiya consumer app for iOS & Android. Three years later in 2019, we brought Hiya Connect to market, a B2B branded call SaaS solution that enables companies to connect to the consumers they are trying to reach. The combination of Protect, Connect, and the Hiya app has resulted in the world's largest Voice Security Platform with over 450M users.
About the Position
The Senior Data Scientist is an individual contributor position responsible for continuously improving Hiya's machine learning system. The Senior Data Scientist drives this improvement both at the high level, with input into the architecture of the ML system, but also at a low level by understanding and improving individual elements of the system.
The employee works with a team of scientists, analysts and engineers whose mission is to provide the best system for identifying spam and fraud activity on telecom networks across the globe.
We're excited about you because you're the kind of person that thinks at a systems level. When you have a task before you, you seek to understand the conditions that led to it as you design your solution. You're a lifelong learner and a mentor, equally happy to learn from your colleagues as you are to share knowledge with them.
What You'll Do
Qualities that will make you successful:
The person in this role must embody Hiya's key values of: Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success and Leading by showing up with a POV, engaging in discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions.
You will have a fast start if you have experience:
The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don't have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you.
More Details
The base salary for this role is between $160,000-$190,000 When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered: skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
Benefits
This position is based in Seattle, WA, USA.
We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.
Our team has won various awards over the last 4 years from Built-in Seattle and Seattle Business Week to #86 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Forbes #1 Startup Employer. Here at Hiya, we are a people-centric company focused on helping each and every one of our employees grow both personally and professionally. We feel that creating a team culture of support and empowerment to challenge the status quo results in an energized and passionate team that is continuously challenged and passionate about the work they are doing. You'll love working here if you are looking for an innovative challenge that is disrupting an industry. Come join us!
At Hiya we are on a mission to secure the voice call with trust, identity, and intelligence. We're protecting everyday people from spam and fraud calls, connecting businesses with their customers, and helping mobile carriers secure their networks for all. In early 2016, brought its Hiya Protect product to market through Samsung Smart Call, AT&T Call Protect (now Active Armor) the first-ever network-based spam solution, and the Hiya consumer app for iOS & Android. Three years later in 2019, we brought Hiya Connect to market, a B2B branded call SaaS solution that enables companies to connect to the consumers they are trying to reach. The combination of Protect, Connect, and the Hiya app has resulted in the world's largest Voice Security Platform with over 450M users.
About the Position
The Senior Data Scientist is an individual contributor position responsible for continuously improving Hiya's machine learning system. The Senior Data Scientist drives this improvement both at the high level, with input into the architecture of the ML system, but also at a low level by understanding and improving individual elements of the system.
The employee works with a team of scientists, analysts and engineers whose mission is to provide the best system for identifying spam and fraud activity on telecom networks across the globe.
We're excited about you because you're the kind of person that thinks at a systems level. When you have a task before you, you seek to understand the conditions that led to it as you design your solution. You're a lifelong learner and a mentor, equally happy to learn from your colleagues as you are to share knowledge with them.
What You'll Do
- All aspects of the predictive model lifecycle; design, training, validation, testing, deployment, monitoring and iterating
- In collaboration with teammates, build tools to automate and standardize machine learning processes
- Build robust data and monitoring pipelines
- Help guide the evolution of our machine learning infrastructure and practice
- Participate in peer review of code and concepts, providing productive feedback and mentorship
Qualities that will make you successful:
- A desire to apply software engineering rigor and best practices to machine learning
- Familiarity with software version control (e.g. Git, SVN, ...)
- Systems level perspective on predictive modeling (i.e. awareness of the ecosystem in which a predictive model operates and succeeds or fails)
- Familiarity with SQL
- Familiarity with a programming language commonly employed in production machine learning (e.g. R, or Python + relevant packages)
The person in this role must embody Hiya's key values of: Serving our customers, Doing rather than observing, Improving ourselves and our business, Owning and holding ourselves accountable for success and Leading by showing up with a POV, engaging in discussion, listening respectfully to others opinions and committing to decisions.
You will have a fast start if you have experience:
- Using a cloud machine learning platform, such as AWS Sagemaker
- Working with model lifecycle management tools, such as MLFlow
- Workflow automation tools such as Airflow
- Working with high throughput, low latency predictive systems
The requirements listed in the job descriptions are guidelines. You don't have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable we would still love to hear from you.
More Details
The base salary for this role is between $160,000-$190,000 When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered: skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
- Start Date: Immediately
- Status: Full-time
- Type: Hybrid, in office 2x per week
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Department: Product
- Reports to: Senior Data Science Manager
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- 401K program with 3% match through Fidelity Investments
- Self managed vacation plan
- 15 Paid holidays including Recharge Days
- 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for the employee and 50% coverage for dependents
- Flexible spending, health savings accounts and Pretax dependent day care savings plan
- Paid parental leave
- Voluntary Life and AD&D, and Accident insurance options
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid long-term disability coverage (in qualifying states)
- Donation Matching for a charity of your choice (up to $1,000/ year)
- $1,000/year reimbursement in Professional Development funds
This position is based in Seattle, WA, USA.
We are building a team with a variety of perspectives, identities, and professional experiences. We evaluate great candidates through a business lens and we strongly believe that diversity and unique perspectives make our company stronger, more dynamic, and a great place to build a career.
Our team has won various awards over the last 4 years from Built-in Seattle and Seattle Business Week to #86 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Forbes #1 Startup Employer. Here at Hiya, we are a people-centric company focused on helping each and every one of our employees grow both personally and professionally. We feel that creating a team culture of support and empowerment to challenge the status quo results in an energized and passionate team that is continuously challenged and passionate about the work they are doing. You'll love working here if you are looking for an innovative challenge that is disrupting an industry. Come join us!
