Data Scientist

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Widnes
1 year ago
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Job Title: Data ScientistLocation: Widnes (originally on-site then move to a hybrid arrangement)Salary: £45,000 - £65,000Yoh have partnered with a rapidly scaling business, they are pioneering and leading a data-driven technologies business approach using sensor & signal detection with most of their work coming from cliental within the Water and Oil & Gas industry.They have since completed another round of funding and have signed off several large projects to help support the product roadmap as well as to further develop to their R&D functionality. They are looking to scale the team by hiring multiple people to bolster their data capabilities.Located on the outskirts of the Liverpool area, they are ideally looking to have someone join the team and originally be onsite so you can embed within the team and then as understanding grows potentially move to more of a hybrid basis.The responsibilities of this role include: * Implement data and machine learning based methods for training and validating results. * Able to apply signal processing techniques in accordance to improving algorithm performance * Ability to process and visualise datasets and discussing the performance and accuracy of the data.To be a successful candidate for this role: * Experience working with Python programming to focus on data manipulation and analysis * Experience working with large datasets performing Containerization, clustering, classification and regression with technologies such as Docker etc,.** Experience working with problems involving image processing/ DAS sensors would be seen as very beneficial for applicant but not completely necessary to have

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