Data Scientist

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1 year ago
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Motorsport Industry

Fully remote, with on-site attendance (pit side) on race days

£45,000 - £80,000 paid b2b



A client of ours, an entrepreneur with 2 successful tech companies that specialise in sports technology, is starting anew venture within the racing space. He spends his time out of work as a professional racing driver, and is using his knowledge of this domain to work on a new piece of software


This Software ingests race and car data, with an aim to enable greater visibility on key information to allow the racing team to make better data-driven decisions



The Role


As aData Scientist,you will help with the ongoing understanding of data generated from this platform, collaborating with3 other Software Engineers.The software is currently in an early alpha stage, so there are plenty of opportunities to work on a range of new features, models and data analytics, working on optimisation and growing out an application at its early stages.


There will be lots of opportunities to attend race days as part of this role, where you will see the practical implementation of the models you are building, as well as speaking to the users to understand their requirements further



Requirements


  • 2+ years experience of Python, as well a strong understanding of cleaning data, modelling techniques and databases
  • Ability to advise on libraries and tools that should be used, and selecting to meet business data analytic requirements
  • An active interest in the motorsport industry
  • Willingness to work on a product in the early stages of development
  • Ability to travel for race-days across England




Data Scientist

Motorsport Industry

Fully remote, with on-site attendance (pit side) on race days

£45,000 - £80,000 paid b2b

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