Senior Data Scientist

Moving2Canada.com; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A Vancouver-based start-up is seeking a talented Senior Data Scientist to enhance their B2B productivity tools. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in NLP, and a PHD or equivalent experience, along with proficiency in machine learning and Python. This position offers a hybrid work environment, competitive salary, excellent benefits, and stock options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits

Stock options

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in natural language processing, machine learning.
• Strong coding skills, ideally Python.
• Experience with building end-to-end training models for products.

Responsibilities

• Enable third party integrations.
• Develop enhanced functionality for productivity tools.
• Provide mentorship for a small team of data and machine learning engineers.

Skills

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Python

Research and Product Development

Education

Masters or PHD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field

Tools

NLP and ML toolkits

Job description

Our Vancouver-based client is a well-funded start-up that is building next generation SaaS productivity tools that target the B2B market. Growing rapidly, they seek a talented Senior Data Scientist to join their dynamic team of developers and data scientists.

You will be enabling third party integrations and developing enhanced functionality for their suite of productivity tools. The environment is a highly-scalable cloud platform. The team is an experienced group of entrepreneurs and developers with proven track records of success.

They seek a Senior Data Scientist — someone with current skills and a strong background with NLP. This person will provide mentorship for a small team of data and machine learning engineers.

The ideal candidate has a PHD — this is a very nice to have but an equivalent blend of a Masters and experience can work. There is also a need for experience with building end-to-end training models for a product. Experience with transformation architecture is highly desirable.

Key Skills

• Masters or PHD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field
• 3+ years of experience in natural language processing, machine learning
• Strong coding skills, ideally Python
• Good experience with common NLP and ML toolkits
• A background in research and product development

The office is located in the heart of Vancouver. You will be working in a hybrid environment (two days a week in the office).

The salary is competitive, the benefits are excellent, and stocks are part of the original compensation package.

The product is world-class. It has global application and it being marketed to a broad array of clients with the first customers already onboarded.

The founders of our company have a proven track record of building successful start-ups.

Come join the team – you’ll be glad you did.