Data Scientist
Position Overview & Responsibilities:
The Intersect Group is hiring for a Data Scientist. This is a contract opportunity, with a set duration of up to 3 years. This position requires candidates to be onsite 40% of the time, and offers 60% work from home flexibility.
Responsibilities of this position include:
- Working with Large Data Sets and Prepping the data for consumption
- Assessing the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources
- Working with Business Users to obtain more insight into data sourcing, asking various questions to understand how data can be used
- Evaluating the results of Machine Learning Algorithms
- Determine the feasibility of a use case given the business problem and avalible data
- Monitoring and analyzing model performance
- Performing prompt engineering task with specific use cases
Required Skills & Experience:
- Required Education: Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field
- Preferred Education: Advanced Degree (Masters or PhD) in Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, or related field
- Required Experience: 3+ Years of Post-University Experience in advanced analytics in the field of data science, applying data analytics methods (preferable to automotive industry datasets) and 1+ years proven experience completing projects with a set of various data sources
- Experience using Python to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
- Experience using a variety learning techniques (clustering decision tree learning , articifical neural networks, etc. and knowledge of their real-world advantages/drawbacks
- Experience using deep learning architectures (RNN, CNN, LSTM, etc.) and frameworks (Tensor Flow, Keras, etc.)
- Experience with various database technologies including SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL Databases
- Experience suing cloud technology and services specifically in AWS including Athena, Glue, Sagemaker, and QuickSight
- Experience with at least 1 common OpenSource High-level LLM-Framework (LangChaing, Llama-Index), evaluation techniques and agentic principles
- Familiarity with modern software development, Devops strategies, and tooling (GitOps)
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Process/Project Management Experience, Training, or Certifications (preferred)
Work Hours:
- WFH 60%, Onsite Greenville, SC 40%