Junior Data Scientist

Godavari Commerce operates consumer websites and apps used by tens of millions of people each month. Our engineering, trust and safety, and customer support teams work across offices in Mumbai and several other countries. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

About the role

Godavari Commerce has an opening for a Junior Data Scientist. This hire will own our demand forecasting models and the process for keeping them accurate as conditions change. Expect messy, real data and a fair amount of time on feature engineering and validation. This role is fully remote within India. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

What you'll do

• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models.
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM.
• Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity.
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness.
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality.

What you need

• 1+ years of applied data science experience.
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design.
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data.
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases.
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks.
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience.

Preferred

• MLflow or another experiment tracking tool.
• Spark for large datasets.
• Pricing or marketing mix modelling.

Salary: ₹11-15 LPA

Perks and benefits

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.

We look at every application, usually within a week.

Start: Immediately.

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