Senior Data Scientist

We are looking for a data-scientist to join our team, and help us build a world-class machine learning platform.

You have 5+ years of experience. You have a strong engineering background, have experience putting ML production pipelines in place, and scaling them. 

You're excited to solve meaningful business problems. You are comfortable with a range of statistical and machine learning techniques. Modeling is your thing, you are proficient in translating unstructured business problems into mathematical frameworks, and propose scalable solutions. 

You have a passion for consumer products, shipping code, and are excited to play a key role in crafting the product from inception to implementation, and beyond.

 Learn more about our Engineering team here:

https://www.beforeyouapply.com/team/engineering-at-turo

Responsibilities

• Work closely with back-end engineers to build a world-class machine learning platform that will service a rapidly growing number of use-cases and functions across Turo.
• You will focus on our deployment pipelines. Produce high-quality maintainable code, test it, collaboratively review it and ship it.
• You will also lead the end-to-end process of conceptualizing, developing, deploying, and analyzing ML models. 
• Mentor junior team members to help them elevate to the next level.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Data Science experience, including backend experience.
• Extensive experience pushing models in productions, developing data-science micro-services, and implementing ML production pipelines like TFX. 
• Fluent in a production-ready programming language such as Python. 
• Understanding of mathematical methods in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Demonstrable experience applying these methods to real world prediction problems.
• Strongly self-motivated with a keen eye for detail. A natural desire to learn and innovate with like-minded colleagues.