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Job Location drjobs

Wilmington, NC - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist


Position Information
Contract or Perm: Contract to hire
o Start Date: Feb 2025
Work Hours (ex. 40 hrs/week & 95): Standard 95pm role some flexibility
Location (add address): Hybrid Local to Wilmington (tristate area) Wilmington DE
o If Hybrid how many days per week Hybrid 3x a week
o Relocation: NO
Work Authorization: USC or GC
o
Interview Process 2 video interview
Must Haves
Masters degree with 35 years of working experience or recent PhD graduate/PhD with 12 years of working experience
Science Chemical Engineering Biochemical type degree
Generative (Gen) AI experience
NLP/Machine learning experience

Someone energetic and can think outside of the box
Nice to Haves
Someone with a phd just graduated doing gen AI has been a research assistant
Gen AI or regular AI (some gen AI is a HUGE PLUS)

Job Description
Job Description: Data Scientist

Statistics and data science are integral to our business and there are exciting opportunities for technical contributions in a variety of areas.
New product development
Continuous improvement in manufacturing
Sales growth and forecasting
Supply chain optimization
Text analytics for competitive analysis
Product testing in field applications
A strong candidate will have expertise in data science practices such as data cleaning regression machine learning and crossvalidation. The applicant should have fluent coding skills in R or Python with the ability to prepare data for analysis build models and create descriptive plots and reports. Beyond these technical skills the job requires an organized worker who can plan a data analysis activity as a series of logical steps effectively communicate their methods and results to clients in the business and collaborate with our data engineering and software development teams to query data and deploy models.

Required Skills & Education
A PhD degree or a (MS degree 2 plus years of experience) in science & engineering technical field
Strong coding skills in R or Python including data preparation regression and plotting
Formal education in statistics including regression and hypothesis testing
Expertise in machine learning and deep learning techniques in clustering classification and neural network with emphasis on supervised learning e.g. random forest xgboost lasso crossvalidation hyperparameter tuning neural networks
Develop algorithms and applications for R&D with machine learning and data science tools including data wrangling clustering outlier removal predictive modeling optimization and time series modeling.
Own data science application development from conceptualization and proof of concept up to the product.
Basic competency with SQL database queries and visualization prototyping
Research experience in applying statistics and data science to solve business engineering or scientific problems
Selflearning with the intellectual curiosity to keep abreast of advances in the field grow data science expertise and refine grasp of internal business operations over time
Effective interpersonal skills for communicating technical concepts to a layperson collaborating with team members and confidence presenting data analysis results to internal clients
Good to have skills & Experience
NLP GenAI Azure OpenAI
Knowledge of GenAI systems including Agentic and RAG approaches utilizing additional technology such as knowledge graphs and advanced retrieval techniques.

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