Data Scientist – Indix, Chennai

Jobs Admin 23 May, 2014 • 2 min read

Can you collate, clean and put large data sets to use? Can you visualize what is there behind these large datasets and explain it to other people? Can you adapt to working in a lean start-up? If the answer to all these questions in yes, have a look at the role below:

Designation – Data Scientist

Location – Chennai.

About employer Indix.

Job Description:

  • Information retrieval or acquisition of new data sets, parsing the data sets, filtering, curating and organizing large volumes of data through use of tools and other automated means
  • Mining for data patterns in very large data sets and representing data visually
  • Interacting with data dynamically and analyzing data using variety of tools or by building custom tools
  • Building and deploying state-of-the-art, data-driven predictive models and algorithms to solve analytical problems
  • Building search indexes and relevance tuning algorithms
  • Internet Search
  • Data mining for patterns or statistics
  • Insights will guide product direction

Qualification and Skills Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree (BS or equivalent) in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Econometrics, Computer Science)
  • Hands on experience in developing algorithms, data modeling, investigating patterns of data and data visualization
  • Having handled greater than 1 TB of structured, unstructured or semi-structured data, is a plus
  • Strong academic and technical background in a quantitative discipline and a good track record of applying advanced classes of models to difficult problems
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills
  • Self-motivated, persistent and “Never Give Up” attitude
  • Passion for innovation and adaptability to a lean startup culture
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and enjoys the challenge of creating new solutions for difficult big data problems and able to deal with very large and incomplete data sets
  • Good appreciation for design thinking and strong data visualization skills
  • Creativity, motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility
  • Able to work with minimal supervision, independently and / or as a member of a team
  • Strong programming background in either C++/Java programming languages with work experience or familiarity with the ‘R’ platform
  • Programming experience in relational platforms like SQL and non-relational technologies like Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Mahout and Pig
  • Experience in information retrieval libraries like Lucene/Solr

Interested candidates can send their CV’S to [email protected] with subject as Data Scientist – Indix

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Jobs Admin 23 May 2014

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