AI Scientist/Engineer

OKX; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

OKX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, is seeking an AI/Data Scientist to join their core team. This role involves working with large datasets, collaborating with various departments, and developing data-driven strategies to enhance product offerings. Candidates should have strong SQL and Python skills, and experience in machine learning projects is essential for success in this dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis and modeling, with proven SQL and Python skills.
• Experience developing production-grade ML systems.
• Self-driven with good communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on large-scale data sets to solve analytical problems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to create analytics solutions.
• Deliver machine learning projects from ideation to deployment.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data Analysis

Machine Learning

Statistical Techniques

Deep Learning

Education

Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or similar

Master or PhD in Machine Learning or related fields

Tools

PyTorch

Pandas

NumPy

Matplotlib

Scikit-learn

Job description

OKX will be prioritising applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require OKX's sponsorship of a visa

About OKX

Founded in 2017, OKX is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency spot and derivatives exchanges. OKX has adopted innovative blockchain technology to reshape the financial ecosystem by offering some of the most diverse and sophisticated products, solutions, and trading tools on the market. Trusted by more than 20 million users in over 180 regions globally, OKX strives to provide an engaging platform that empowers every individual to explore the world of crypto. In addition to its world-class DeFi exchange, OKX serves its users with OKX Insights, a research arm that is at the cutting edge of the latest trends in the cryptocurrency industry. With its extensive range of crypto products and services, and unwavering commitment to innovation, OKX’s vision is a world of financial access backed by blockchain and the power of decentralized finance.

About the team:

You will be the member of the core end-to-end AI team, from BI to AI. You will be responsible for democratising insights on our core businesses, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, measure and understand key metrics, influence business strategy and product roadmap through data, deliver analysis reports and models, empower our products and services with data-driven and AI-driven approaches, and significantly impact the business. You will collaborate closely with the engineering team, product team and other stakeholders in defining the data collection needs, the data schema, the data analysis, the model training and the model deployment.

Responsibilities:

Work on large-scale structured and unstructured data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using analytical, statistical, machine learning or deep learning approaches.

Work with stakeholders from different departments to understand their business needs and challenges, architect and design analytics solutions to meet business objectives and support business decision making.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to provide strategies based on data-driven insights across product, marketing, compliance, and others.

Define, understand, and test external/internal opportunities to improve our products and services.

Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics.

Develop data models, data automation systems, performance metrics, and reporting systems, and track impact over time.

Deliver Machine Learning projects from beginning to end. This includes understanding the business need, planning the project, aggregating & exploring data, building & validating models, and deploying ML models to deliver business impact.

Improving upon existing machine learning methodologies by developing new sources, developing and testing enhancements, running computational experiments, and fine-tuning parameters.

Communicate results and business impacts of insight initiatives to stakeholders within and outside of the company.

Requirements:

Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Data Mining, or similar quantitative field.

Proven successful and trackable experience in an analytical role or data scientist role involving extraction, analysis, and/or modeling.

Solid experiences in SQL, familiar with SQL functions such as window functions and aggregate functions.

Solid experiences in Python, familiar with data analysis libraries such as pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc.

Experience in using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analysing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.

Experience in developing production-grade ML systems including exploratory analysis, feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, model training, model selection, creating data pipelines, etc.

Experience in working with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch for real world problems.

Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, graph algorithm, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving and complexity analysis.

Self-driven, innovative, collaborative, with good communication and presentation skills, able to translate between business and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master or Phd in Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Computer Science,Business, Economics, or other quantitative fields.

Experience in FinTech, eCommerce, SaaS, AdTech, or Digital Wallet business industries.

Experience in working with teams across offices and timezones is a plus.

Experience in big data tools such as Amplitude, DataWorks, MaxCompute, Hadoop, Hive, Spark and HBase is a big plus.

Experience using analytics techniques to contribute to company growth or increasing revenue and other key business outcomes is a big plus.

Experience with recommendation systems is a plus.

Experience with RPA system is a plus

Experience with NLP, such as NER, semantic analysis and machine translation, etc. is a plus

Experience with CV, such as image classification, image detection, OCR, etc. is a plus.

Experience in Triton Inference Server or ONNX is a plus.

Experience with application development practices at scale

Publication at top AI conferences and journals

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