Data Scientist

Company: PA Consulting
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Your day-to-day

We're an innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Those that start using AI and advanced data analytics early will gain the most. While technology is yet to live up to the hype, using it now gives a chance to get ahead, learn and improve to drive long-term value.

It's essential to start with developing and deploying use cases and meanwhile building a capability around artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics. It'll be a key differentiator in the short term, and a necessity in the long term.

• Analyzed the blogosphere to identify influencers
• Used voice and text analytics to predict customer sentiments and Net Promotor Scores
• Created an internet of things trial for a FTSE 100 company
• Used unstructured data to predict breaches in ethical behavior of global organizations
• Used deep learning to uncover optimal settings to make a pharmaceutical manufacturing process 15% more efficient
• Analyzed live audio data to create individual sound zones
• Used neural networks to detect patterns in massive highly non-linear time-series.
  
  Qualifications
  
  What you bring
  
  
  • ---2-5 years' professional experience as a data scientist, software engineer or statistical modeler
  • Master's degree from top tier university in Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics or similar field
  • Expertise in Machine Learning algorithms and methods
  • Experience writing production level code in one of the following: Python, Java, C++, C
  • Experience with database systems preferred
  • Experience building scalable data pipelines with data/feature engineering
  • Experience with front end (UI), HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, R Shiny, Tableau preferred
  • A genuine affinity for problem solving - an inquisitive mind who wants to solve the trickiest challenges whilst working with incredible colleagues
  • Existing experience in consulting would be beneficial although we equally like in-house experience
  • Experience of conducting analysis for evidence-based decision making, developing models and decision support tools or building business cases for investment decisions
    
    Additional Information
    
    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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