Who are we? Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008. Summary As a Data Scientist at Smarsh, you will be analyzing a wide range of unstructured communications data to address problems for our customers through attentive listening, astute planning, and out of the box thinking to develop solutions and reporting results in an engaging manner. The role will involve working with Senior Data Scientists and mentoring Associate Data Scientists in analyzing complex data, generating insights, and creating solutions as needed across a variety of tools and platforms. The ideal candidate for this position will possess the ability to perform both independent and team-based research and generate insights from large data sets with a hands-on/can do attitude of servicing/managing day to day data requests and analysis. The role offers a unique opportunity to get exposure to many problems and solutions associated with taking machine learning and analytics research to production. On any given day, you will have the opportunity to interface with business leaders, machine learning researchers, data engineers, platform engineers, data scientists and many more, enabling you to level up in true end-to-end data science proficiency.
\n How will you contribute? Development of machine learning models and other analytics following established workflows, while also looking for optimization and improvement opportunitiesData annotation and quality review Exploratory data analysis and model fail state analysis Methodology, results and insights reporting, including model Governance report drafting in collaboration with senior team members Client/prospect guidance in machine learning model and analytic fine-tuning/development processes50% exploratory data analysis and annotation20% interaction with stakeholders to understand modeling needs30% data science experiments and model building What will you bring?Solid statistics knowledge (hypothesis testing, ANOVA, chi-square tests, etc…)Command of data science and statistics principles (regression, Bayes, time series, clustering, P/R, AUROC, exploratory data analysis etc…)Understanding and Experience of NLP Techniques in traditional pipelines, metrics, process and evaluation for supervised and unsupervised learning. Familiarity with Deep Learning techniques for NLP.Familiarity with LLMs.Excellent verbal and written skillsProven collaborator, thriving on teamworkSelf-learnerGood relationship building skills Required Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a scientific fieldApprox. 2 to 5 years experience working with data & analytics (including school)Experience working with PythonFamiliarity with SQL and noSQL databases Knowledge of "Big Data" frameworks like Hadoop, spark and Kafka are a plusFamiliarity with one or more data science and machine/deep learning frameworks and tooling, including scikit-learn, H2O, keras, pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, carot, tidyverseExperience using Git, Linux/Unix, an IDEs Preferred Education and Experience
Master's or Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a scientific fieldHave 1+ years experience working with NLP, text analytics/classificationKnowledge of NLP transfer learning, including word embedding models (gloVe, fastText, word2vec) and transformer models (Bert, SBert, HuggingFace, and GPT-x etc.)Experience with natural language processing toolkits like NLTK, spaCyKnowledge of microservices architecture and continuous delivery concepts in machine learning and related technologies such as helm, Docker and KubernetesCloud computing (AWS, GCS, Azure)
\n$120,000 - $130,000 a year
The above salary range represents Smarsh's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.
Any applicable bonus programs will be discussed during the recruiting process.
The salary for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, location, specialty and training. Local cost of living assessments are done for each new hire at the time of offer.
\nAbout our culture Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world's leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.