Graduate Data Scientist

About us

Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. The operations team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. We are headquartered in New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Croatia, with a local contract and salary paid in euros. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

In your first few months you will

• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations
• Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks

About you

• 0-2 years of applied data science experience
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences

Benefits

Compensation: €1,950 - €2,200 per month

• Monthly internet allowance
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Paid sick days
• Annual learning budget
• Co-working space stipend
• Home office setup budget
• Performance bonus

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tri-County Systems.