Junior Data Scientist

Bollard Labs is looking for a Junior Data Scientist to join a small, steady team. Expect messy, real data and a fair amount of time on feature engineering and validation. Remote within Nepal. The team meets in Kathmandu once a quarter, travel covered. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Your responsibilities

Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations. Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks. Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks. Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer. Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations. Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM. Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity. Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches.

Skills and experience

1-2 years of applied data science experience. MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience. Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool. Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data.

Preferred

MLflow or another experiment tracking tool.

Benefits

Medical insurance. Company laptop. Learning budget.

Who we are

Most of what we build is back-office software for property managers, including lease tracking, work orders and tenant payments. Founded in 2011, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

Please submit your CV in English.

This posting may close early if we receive enough applications.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bollard Labs.