Data Scientist

MindGeek is the largest, privately held company in our industry developing unparalleled technologies for high traffic, high volume online properties. 

Billions of data points are recorded daily from our products and, with this data, the Data Science team is responsible for improving business operations and user experiences. Current Data Science projects include: content recommendation engines, ad bidding systems, credit card fraud detection, and computer vision tasks. We seek a Data Scientist to help enhance our current projects and work on fascinating new projects. The ideal candidate should be experienced and interested in owning data-driven projects from the first stages of research to the later stages of development and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Research:
  • Discover solutions to unique data science challenges while satisfying business needs
• Develop and Implement:
  • Build the full solution:
    • Loading and cleaning the data
    • Preparing and training the model
    • Deploying, monitoring and maintaining the solution

Requirements:

• MSc. or  PhD. in a quantitative STEM field
• Strong knowledge of data science algorithms and their limitations; there's more to life than Deep Learning
• Research-oriented mindset and a strong passion to tackle difficult problems
• Strong programming skills in Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, pytorch / tensorflow / fastai, ...);  R, Java, C/C++ or similar high-level languages a bonus
• Ability to communicate clearly to non-experts 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with database environments (including distributed big data solutions) and functional SQL knowledge
• Experience with UNIX/Linux environments
• Experience and ability to work with big data problems
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCE, Azure)
• Experience applying research methods to real-world business problems
• Data science side projects or Kaggle competitions

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Stay sharp by taking part at one of our Hackathons, Engineering retreats, Lunch & Learns or Leadership Seminars.
• Daily breakfast as well as monthly lunches
• Flex time and summer hour schedule
• A 500$ fitness allowance
• Epic parties throughout the year including summer BBQ, Halloween costume party, Holiday bash and 5 a 7s
• Opportunity to give back to the community through our Pay it Forward Program, Ronald Macdonald House visits and supporting the MindGeek Scholarship Fund for Dans la Rue
• A chance to work with a first-class team !

Our exceptional team consist of experts in every functional area of business and they are the key to our position as leaders in content delivery. We strive to innovate on a daily basis to ensure we continue to grow and create new revenue opportunities and cutting edge technology.  If you are passionate about taking your career to the next level, then join the MindGeek team and be a part of something big.  

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only candidates under consideration will be contacted. No telephone calls please. No agency calls or emails.