Data Scientist - DS 1

AppZen is the leader in Finance AI software built to deliver autonomous processing for modern finance teams. Our patented artificial intelligence software uses deep learning, semantic analysis, and computer vision to accurately and efficiently process intelligence from thousands of data sources, documents, and images so that organizations can better understand financial transactions and make smarter business decisions. Over 1,000 global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s Expense Audit and Autonomous AP products to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their business. Visit us at www.appzen.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
We are looking for a Data Scientist to come and work on our growing AI stack. You will be working with a team of highly skilled and motivated data scientists and machine learning engineers. If you are excited about natural language understanding and machine translation, AppZen is the right place for you to apply and grow your skills.

Must-Have:

• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, and familiar with standard algorithms and techniques
• Ability to analyze a wide variety of data: in AWS cloud structured and unstructured, ETL / ELT, observational and experimental, to drive system designs and product implementations 
• Expert knowledge of a statistical computing language such as Python or R Knowledge of probability and statistics, including experimental design, predictive modeling, optimization, and causal inference Experience in design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing systems 
• Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, computer vision
• Manage your own process: identify and execute on high impact projects, triage external requests, and make sure you bring projects to conclusion in time for the results to be useful
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills; communicate proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions to drive business decisions
• M.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or other relevant technical field
• Must have 2+ years of industry experience 
• You are a team player

Nice-to-Have:

• Track-record of having developed novel algorithms, e.g. publications in one or more of the following: KDD, WWW, NIPS, ISWC, NAACL, ACL, SIGIR, EMNLP, ICML etc
• Use of SQL, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices Framework 

We are equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.