What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Data Scientist position at BambooHR?
Please Note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.
Essential Job Duties
As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll apply current machine learning and AI algorithms to derive data insights and deliver intelligent services. This involves gaining a deeper understanding of relevant customer needs and business domains, exploring and improving available data, selecting appropriate approaches, and constantly improving models.
You will:
- Train and tune machine learning models
- Explore data and conduct feature engineering
- Apply natural language processing to understand text and aid in conversational interfaces
- Build optimal algorithms with LLMs and retrieval augmented generation
- Collaborate with data engineers, AI software engineers, data analysts, and stakeholders
- Evaluate emerging techniques by understanding academic papers and new technical tools, and by conducting labs, prototypes, and explorations
- Monitor and optimize production models
What You Need to Get the Job Done
- 5 years of professional experience as a data scientist, typically coding in Python with relevant libraries
- Demonstrated ability to select and implement ML algorithms, shape data into useful input features, and choose and optimize appropriate model performance metrics
- Proficiency with NLP, text processing, LLMs / generative models, and conversational UX
- Mathematical thinking foundation and orientation
- Skill working with data sources of various types using tools such as SQL, pandas, Spark
- Expertise designing and building deep learning architectures and models
- Ability to work well independently and with colleagues
- Skill collaborating using cloud-based tooling, git, notebook systems, and ML workflows
A strong contender will also demonstrate abilities to:
- Deeply understand each problem, available data, and potential methods
- Monitor, learn, and apply emerging techniques
- Write high quality deployable code
- Wisely select approaches and evaluation methods
- Have productive interactions that lift the team and stakeholders
Beyond the technical skills, we’re looking for individuals who are:
- Clear communicators (verbal and written)
- Analytical and perceptive of patterns
- Strong in understanding underlying math and algorithms
- Creative in finding relevant and novel approaches
- Productive in a dynamic setting
If you love to learn, you’ll be in good company. You’ll likely have an advanced degree in a quantitative field, or a related Bachelor’s and additional experience working with data.
What You'll Love About Us
- A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
- EAP through Headspace
- Check out all our benefits that benefit you
