[Coral_current] Opportunity at Optimal Solutions Group - Jr. Data Scientist (fwd)

[Tim Oates]

FYI

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Tim Oates, Professor
Department of CS and EE
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(410) 455-3082
https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/oates/

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:52:30 -0500
From: Maria Medrano <mmedrano at optimalsolutionsgroup.com>
To: oates at cs.umbc.edu
Cc: 'Mark Turner' <mturner at optimalsolutionsgroup.com>,
     'Sadaf Asrar' <sasrar at optimalsolutionsgroup.com>,
     'Human Resources' <hr at optimalsolutionsgroup.com>
Subject: Opportunity at Optimal Solutions Group - Jr. Data Scientist


Optimal Solutions Group is excited to announce that we are looking for a
Data Scientist Jr. to work with our team.

Responsibilities include:

  *  Assist researchers and software developers on projects bridging the gap
     between research and analytics by providing data-driven solutions across
     several policy areas.
  *  Work with research and analytics staff in development of streamlined
     protocols through gathering requirements.
  *  Assist team with schema, business rules and configuration testing
     processes.
  *  Support development efforts with standardized protocols to manipulate
     information captured in a fixed format to usable data, using
     non-traditional data sources like scraping data from social media,
     mining data from natural language texts, as well as vectorizing images
     to create analytical dataset to inform policy decisions.
  *  Assist development teams drafting and compiling requirements for complex
     statistical models, machine learning algorithms and deep learning
     networks.
  *  Assist Data Scientists in developing data products that contain dynamic
     data visualizations to present findings, data explorers that allow users
     to explore and analyze the data themselves, as well as publish data.
  *  Perform functional testing of data products
  *  Maintain data product documentation.



We are looking for someone that has the following experience:

  *  Knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN,
     Naive Bayes, SVM, and Decision Forests
  *  Familiarity with data management and machine learning toolkits, such as
     tidyverse and dyplr in R and pandas and scikit learn in Python
  *  Experience using data visualization tools PlotLy and Tableau
  *  Experience working with query languages such as SQL.
  *  Knowledge of statistics and research methods and regression models.
  *  Experience developing technical documentation for datasets, code, and
     data products.
  *  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

If you know someone who you think would be an excellent fit for this role,
please forward this email and/or email to careers at optimalsolutionsgroup.com
with Data Scientist Jr. in the subject line with their details and resume.


Thank you!

Maria G. Medrano

Human Resources Manager

Optimal Solutions Group

University of Maryland Discovery District

5825 University Research Court, Suite 1100

College Park, MD 20740

Tel: 301-306-1170