(Urgent) Senior Data Scientist - Talent Pool ...

About Faculty At Faculty, we transform organisationalperformance through safe, impactful and human-centric AI. With adecade of experience, we provide over 300 global customers withsoftware, bespoke AI consultancy, and Fellows from our awardwinning Fellowship programme. Our expert team brings togetherleaders from across government, academia and global tech giants tosolve the biggest challenges in applied AI. Should you join us,you’ll have the chance to work with, and learn from, some of thebrilliant minds who are bringing Frontier AI to the frontlines ofthe world. We're always on the lookout for talented individualswhose principles and interests align with our own. While we don'thave a specific vacancy open at the moment, by registering yourinterest for the Senior Data Scientist Talent Pool, you'll be amongthe first to hear about job openings in our Frontier Team thatalign with your experience when they go live. What you'll be doing:As a Senior Data Scientist within Frontier, you will lead the datascience work on project teams that are configuring our productFrontier for our customers. Each deployment of Frontier requires acomputational twin, essentially an AI-powered digital twin, to bebuilt, and it is primarily the responsibility of our datascientists to both design and then build these computational twins.Whilst doing this well is partly about building familiarity withFrontier’s development interfaces, it’s mainly about doing thingsthat are critical in any applied data science role; namely deeplyunderstanding the core customer problem in order to ensure that thetechnical solution can drive value. In terms of more technicalactivities, the build of a computational twin involves a bunch oftasks common to all data science work such as EDA, model building,and model evaluation. In terms of other activities you’ll do in therole: - You’ll be a leader within a cross-functional delivery team,working closely with engineers, designers, and commercial roles todeliver value to customers. Working closely with the leads of theseother functions you’ll ultimately be responsible for the successfuldelivery. - You will help our excellent commercial team buildstrong relationships with clients, shaping the direction of bothcurrent and future projects. - You will play an important role inthe development of other data scientists at Faculty throughactivity management and potentially line management of others. Whowe're looking for: - Senior experience in either a professionaldata science position or a quantitative academic field - Strongpython programming skills as evidenced by earlier work in datascience or software engineering. - An excellent command of thebasic libraries for data science (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn)and familiarity with a deep-learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow,PyTorch, Caffe) - A high level of mathematical competence andproficiency in statistics - A solid grasp of essentially all of thestandard data science techniques, for example,supervised/unsupervised machine learning, model cross validation,Bayesian inference, time-series analysis, simple NLP, effective SQLdatabase querying, or using/writing simple APIs for models. Weregard the ability to develop new algorithms when an innovativesolution is needed as a fundamental skill - A leadership mindsetfocussed on growing the technical capabilities of the team; acaring attitude towards the personal and professional developmentof other data scientists; enthusiasm for nurturing a collaborativeand dynamic culture - An appreciation for the scientific method asapplied to the commercial world; a talent for converting businessproblems into a mathematical framework; resourcefulness inovercoming difficulties through creativity and commitment; arigorous mindset in evaluating the performance and impact of modelsupon deployment - Some commercial experience, particularly if thisinvolved client-facing work or project management; eagerness towork alongside our clients; business awareness and an ability togauge the commercial value of projects; outstanding written andverbal communication skills; persuasiveness when presenting to alarge or important audience - Experience leading a team of datascientists (to deliver innovative work according to a stricttimeline) as well as experience in composing a project plan, inassessing its technical feasibility, and in estimating the time todelivery - A product mindset, able to understand the needs of usersand to learn how Frontier delivers them value What we can offeryou: The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all comefrom different personal, professional and organisationalbackgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by adeep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day.Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll besurrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working toachieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers,business development specialists, operations professionals and moreall bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn somethingnew from everyone you meet. #J-18808-Ljbffr