Remote Senior Data Scientist - ML & AI

Placements24; Benoni; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Home office stipend

Professional development

Performance bonuses

Stock options

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Senior Data Scientist specializing in machine learning to join their technology and analytics team. You will design, develop, and deploy ML models to solve complex business problems and extract actionable insights from large datasets.

The role emphasizes collaboration in a remote-first environment, strong communication, and mentoring junior data scientists. Proficiency in Python or R, ML libraries, and big data tools is essential, with opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS, Stats, Math, or related quant field.
• 5+ years in data science with ML focus.
• Proven experience deploying ML models.
• Proficient in Python or R with libraries like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Pandas.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL and big data tech.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models to address business challenges.
• Collect, clean, and pre-process large datasets.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify insights.
• Develop and deploy predictive models for forecasting, classification, regression, clustering.
• Evaluate models, tune hyperparameters, optimize performance.
• Collaborate with engineering to put models into production.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders via visuals and presentations.
• Stay abreast of data science advancements and AI trends.
• Contribute to data science best practices and methodologies.
• Mentor junior data scientists and share knowledge.

Skills

ML algorithms

Python

R

Big data

Statistical modeling

Data preprocessing

Communication skills

Remote work

Team mentoring

Education

Master's or PhD in quantitative field

Tools

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

SQL

NoSQL

Spark

Hadoop

Job description

Placements24 is seeking a Remote Senior Data Scientist specializing in machine learning to join their technology and analytics team. You will design, develop, and deploy ML models to solve complex business problems and extract actionable insights from large datasets.

The role emphasizes collaboration in a remote-first environment, strong communication, and mentoring junior data scientists. Proficiency in Python or R, ML libraries, and big data tools is essential, with opportunities to influence