ABOUT THE ROLE

Teikametrics is looking for a Data Scientist to join a team under the Data Science directorate tasked with building the prediction and control services that comprise our E-commerce AI. Candidates should have strong mathematical fundamentals, experience authoring statistical models, and aspiration to learn software engineering fundamentals.

The Data Science team's predictive services are developed in Python on top of AWS Sagemaker, orchestrated by Airflow and backed by a data warehouse in Snowflake. Our back-end code emphasizes a ‘functional-first’ Scala stack with cats and fs2. The team's mandate is to provide hardened prediction and control services to our sellers that solve the multi-agent, game-theoretic problems at the heart of decision-making in E-commerce. Additionally, this team will produce scientific materials geared toward helping sellers understand the utility and power of Teikametrics' data assets in the context of running their businesses. This role in particular will involve significant analysis of our data assets and the production of scientific writings thereon.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• 3+ years of experience working as a professional software developer or data scientist, 2 of which may be graduate-level work in a hard science.
• Strong Python with experience in some subset of the Python ML ecosystem (numpy/scipy/pandas, Tensorflow, etc.).
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience choosing and writing machine-learning models for deployment at scale.
• Some research skills; searching, reading, distilling literature in a hard science.
• Graduate-level mathematics, esp. probability and linear algebra.
• Passion for learning and growing as a developer and scientist, with the goal of one day mentoring others.
• Desire to work in a collaborative environment focusing on continuous learning; participating in tech talks, code review, and pair programming.

IT'S A BONUS TO HAVE

• Experience operating a system that takes automated actions entailing monetary risk.
• Experience with any of: AWS, Kubeflow, Databricks, Spark, Snowflake.
• An interest in learning functional programming, or experience therewith.
• Familiarity with one or more of: generative statistical models, reinforcement learning, game theory, control, or related field.

ABOUT TEIKAMETRICS

There has never been a more exciting time to join Teikametrics, the leading Retail Optimization Platform (ROP). We’re building an operating system to optimize every aspect of a retailer's business -- from advertising to inventory to pricing. We optimize billions of transactions for thousands of entrepreneurs and brands around the world selling on Amazon and other marketplaces. The Teikametrics ROP uses proprietary econometrics and machine-learning data models packaged in a simple SaaS interface. We combine our best in class technology with coaching and support from our world-class teams based remotely in Boston, MA, Seattle, WA, Bengaluru, India, and Tel Aviv, Israel. We are looking for team members who are values aligned, make impact to our mission, and thrive in our fast-growing organization.