Lead Data Scientist - Remote

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New Delhi, Delhi and two nearshore delivery centres. We started in 2004 and have grown to about 400 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

OVERVIEW

New Delhi Software needs someone comfortable with both statistics and production code. Remote position. Most of the team is in New Delhi, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations.
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer.
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches.
• Design and analyse A/B tests, including power calculations and guardrail metrics.
• Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift.
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.
• Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity.
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of applied data science experience.
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data.
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool.
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design.
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL.

Pay: ₹23,00,000 - ₹26,50,000 per annum

WHAT WE OFFER

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Group term life insurance.
• Internet reimbursement.
• Learning budget.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at New Delhi Software Pvt Ltd.