Remote ML Data Scientist — Predictive Analytics & AI

Placements24; Centurion; Hybrid; ZAR 1,469,000 - 2,122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully remote

Health coverage

Paid time off

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a skilled Data Scientist with ML expertise to join our fully remote R&D team. You will develop and deploy advanced ML models, work with large diverse datasets, and help drive innovation across products.

You will collaborate with engineers to productionize models, evaluate performance, and stay abreast of ML advances to identify new business applications. A strong academic background and 4+ years of experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field required.
• 4+ years of hands-on data science experience.
• Proficient in Python or R and ML libraries.
• Strong data mining and statistical modeling skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and deploy ML models for predictive analytics.
• Perform data exploration and feature engineering on large datasets.
• Collaborate with software engineers to deploy models.
• Evaluate models and iterate to improve accuracy.
• Stay updated on ML advances and identify new applications.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

R

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Education

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Scikit-learn

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a skilled Data Scientist with ML expertise to join our fully remote R&D team. You will develop and deploy advanced ML models, work with large diverse datasets, and help drive innovation across products.

You will collaborate with engineers to productionize models, evaluate performance, and stay abreast of ML advances to identify new business applications. A strong academic background and 4+ years of experience are preferred.