Senior Data Scientist

London, England, United Kingdom

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Parkopedia

Find your perfect parking space using our growing database of thousands of car parks, street and metered parking and even private garages!

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Parkopedia was founded with the mission of being able to answer any parking question, anywhere in the world.

Today, Parkopedia is the world’s leading parking services provider and is used by millions of drivers and organisations ranging from Apple to Volkswagen.

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist with a big data focus to join the data science team. We ingest large amounts of sensor data, combine this with manually curated data and use this to produce modelling products to help people park.

We are part of a global team but are based in the London Office, which is a short walk from London Bridge.


Responsibilities

  • Presenting our products internally as well as to external clients at all levels.
  • Keeping up to date with current research that impacts our products and preparing presentations on key changes.
  • Mentoring members of the data science team and evangelising scientific best practices across the company.
  • Researching and prototyping new modelling approaches and considering the customer UX for them.
  • Building dashboards to monitor performance and health of our data science products.
  • Be a great member of the team, whilst the work is quite autonomous, we’re a close knit bunch and like to support each other in any way we can.

Requirements

  • Excellent presentation skills. You will be comfortable presenting modelling approaches to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Extensive experience engaging with relevant external stakeholders and clients at a variety of technical levels (ideally in a commercial setting).
  • Excellent mathematical and theoretical skills, especially probability theory. Likely from an MSc or PhD in a highly mathematical field.
  • Ideally you will have a breadth of experience in machine-learning tools and techniques, as well as having experience in geospatial modelling and working with large datasets.
  • Python programming skills including its data ecosystem (NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, etc), and maintaining code repositories in git.
  • Good knowledge of SQL (ideally MySQL).
  • Experience with mentoring other team members.
  • Working knowledge of using Unix/Linux systems.

Benefits

Parkopedia is committed to building a great work environment for all our employees. Here are the benefits that we offer:

  • Unlimited annual leave - yup, time off is as important as time in the office, we all need to unwind and recharge our batteries!
  • Flexible working hours
  • Training allowance
  • Fresh fruit, tea, coffee
  • Annual company retreat
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Regular team lunches and socials
  • Time off for volunteering
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Gym membership
  • Eye care and flu vouchers

We are an equal opportunities employer and believe in the power of a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰

Tags: Big Data Git Linux MySQL NumPy Pandas PhD Probability theory Prototyping Python Research Scikit-learn SQL UX

Perks/benefits: Career development Fitness / gym Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave Team events Unlimited paid time off

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Data Science Jobs

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