Principal Data Scientist - Plume Design｜Meet.jobs

Plume’s Data Science team is looking for an experienced Principal Data Scientist to build and deliver industry-leading innovation at a rapid pace. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be able to use a range of data science methodologies to solve challenging business problems when the solution is unclear. Due to the massive scale requirements of our platform, you will be solving challenging problems on a daily basis using cutting edge technologies and advanced architectural patterns involving distributed systems, and stateful services.

What You’ll Do

• Guide a small team of Data Scientists in order to help prioritize the most impactful projects for the company.
• Perform in-depth analysis on our WiFi telemetry and user behavior data, derive actionable insights as well as critical KPIs, build visualizations/dashboards to present the results to stakeholders
• Design and develop machine learning pipelines from various data sources by processing structured and unstructured data to support our machine learning and analytic needs
• Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work, create statistical definitions of the outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify these outliers.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to translate complex real-life business problems into concrete problem statements, formulate the technical specifications, and develop solutions using data science and machine learning techniques.

What You’ll Bring

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related technical field
• 10+ years of industry experience in developing ML systems
• Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with SQL
• Proficiency manipulating big data with Apache Spark (PySpark)
• Expertise in data analysis and processing - in particular, data “wrangling” skills, such as data cleaning, augmentation, validation, the creation of ETL pipelines
• Hands-on experience working with machine learning frameworks and fundamental understanding of machine learning concepts/techniques
• Can work asynchronously with teams from different time zones - proactive, keep clear notes/reports, write great documentations, can work independently, etc
• Experience and demonstrated capability to handle challenges with vague or abstract problem definition

Bonus If You Have

• Experience deploying machine learning pipeline to production systems
• Experience working on health/fitness related datasets and IoT/edge devices

Total Compensation package would include: anticipated base salary range of $220,000 - $260,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Benefits include: a 401k plan and a company match, basic life insurance plus unparalleled health, dental, vision and other benefits and perks. Please see here for more details.

An employee’s base salary and its position within the range may depend on a number of factors including job related knowledge, education, skills, experience and other business related considerations. Published ranges are provided in good faith at the time of posting.

Plume Design focuses on Internet Service Providers and Cloud Data Services. Their company has offices in Palo Alto. They have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees. To date, Plume Design has raised $37.5M of funding; their latest round was closed on June 2017.

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