This position is available for remote employment in these areas:Boston MA, Draper UTJob Description:

The Opportunity

Pluralsight Iris is the learning intelligence platform built within Pluralsight. It helps technologists worldwide discover the learning they need to achieve their personal and career goals in technology.

As a data scientist on our core team, you will help us solve novel statistical, machine learning, and data science problems by building and improving on the intelligence of Iris. We are looking for an experienced data scientist who loves tackling ambiguous problems, finding creative and practical solutions, and producing concrete prototypes that will become a key part of Pluralsight’s user experience. You’ll work closely with an established team of top-notch, collaborative data scientists and you will collaborate with a cross-functional product team that is responsible for one of Pluralsight’s key differentiators.

Who you are:

• You are intellectually curious, collaborative, and highly driven with an entrepreneurial mindset. You have excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills.

• You can guide complex projects from ideation and planning to model design to deployment and independently make decisions about the technical approach

• You have a solid data science toolkit that you can leverage, with knowledge of and understanding of how and when to apply different algorithms and technical approaches.

• You have a strong foundation in Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Statistics.

• You have mastery of either Python or R. Regardless of your favorite scientific computing environment, you can flex between the two languages.

• You know your way around SQL-like databases (e.g. PostGres, Impala, Hive) and even better if you have experience with Spark and other big data platforms.

• You are able to perform rapid prototyping of experimental solutions, writing readable, scalable, and reproducible code.

• You can describe and speak in an approachable way about complex analyses and concepts within a cross-functional team. You are a great “analytic translator”.

What you’ll do:

• You will collaborate with product teams to understand and solve complex problems; envisioning and creating data science solutions needed to drive our user experience outcomes. 

• You will create, iterate, and innovate on models and algorithms and collaborate with team members to implement them on the Pluralsight platform.

• You will evaluate and introduce new technology by developing proof-of-concepts and prototypes and effectively communicating highly complex information to Experience team partners and leaders

• You will propose and design experiments to test new product features and analyze their results.

• You will also serve as a data science expert and consultant to Pluralsight’s product teams, leveraging your statistical and analytical skills to answer ad hoc questions.

Experience you’ll need:

• M.S. or Ph.D in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or related quantitative discipline

• Minimum 5 years in a non-academic data science role, conducting analysis, developing algorithms and building prototypes

• Experience working with product development teams and/or with developers

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