Senior Data Scientist - Turo｜Meet.jobs

Turo is the world's largest car sharing marketplace where you can book any car you want, wherever you want it, from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, Canada, and the UK. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, guests can take the wheel of the perfect car for any occasion, while hosts can take the wheel of their futures by building an accessible, flexible, and scalable car sharing business from the ground up.

Data is our fuel at Turo. It is ever-more abundant and valuable, but it's raw material. Harnessed by data analysts, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, it propels Turo on its mission to put the world’s 1.5+ billion cars to better use, delighting our customers with matching the right car for their next adventure from an exceptionally diverse selection, and at the same time helping our marketplace remain safe.

You are a creative and rigorous data scientist with 4+ years of experience, excited to solve meaningful business problems. You are comfortable with a range of statistical and machine learning techniques with the ability to creatively apply them to our problems. Modeling is your thing, you are proficient in translating unstructured business problems into mathematical frameworks, and propose scalable solutions.

You have a passion for consumer products, shipping code, and data focused experiments. You are excited to play a key role in crafting the product from inception to implementation and beyond. Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers, product managers and other data scientists to develop algorithms and drive key product and modeling decisions.
• Lead the end-to-end process of conceptualizing, developing, deploying, and analyzing models.
• Present your insights and suggestions to audiences of all levels in the company.
• Dedicatedly perform explorations of data and algorithms to improve our models.
• Own the data quality of your projects including training, test and experiment data.
• Research the best metrics; design and validate experiments to measure model performance. Required Qualifications
• 4+ years of Data Science experience
• Deep understanding of mathematical methods in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Demonstrable experience applying these methods to real world prediction problems (classification, regression, recommendation systems, time series).
• Strongly self-motivated with a keen eye for detail. A natural desire to learn and innovate with like-minded colleagues.
• Fluent in a production-ready programming language such as Python. Ability to deploy and scale models into a production environment collaborating with engineers.
• Fluent in common data science tools (e.g. scikit-learn, numpy, pandas) in Python/R (preferred).
• Fluent in SQL, ability to efficiently query large dataset Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in experiment design and analysis.
• Experience with AWS data warehouses and services,
• Experience with Airflow.

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Turo focuses on Peer-to-Peer, Marketplaces, Transportation, Recreation, and Sharing Economy. Their company has offices in San Francisco, Phoenix, London, Toronto, and Paris. They have a large team that's between 501-1000 employees. To date, Turo has raised $474.85M of funding; their latest round was closed on July 2019.

You can view their website at https://turo.com/ or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.