DATA SCIENTIST
If you are an enthusiastic individual who likes to work on a range of cutting edge problems, in a unique field that brings together human cognition, consumer behavior, statistical modeling, optimization algorithms, and software development, Nielsen Innovation is looking for a Data Scientist to join our Data Science team in Waltham MA.
- You will be part of a highly focused group of talented and creative engineers and scientists.
- Our work spans the entire human-in-the-loop interactive search and optimization process, from participant task/user experience, through real-time computation of core optimization algorithms, post-hoc data modeling, and analysis and reporting.
- Our research and development efforts focus on developing new capabilities to meet the expanding scope of our business, as well as improving the performance and scalability of our current optimization and measurement platform.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
You will be responsible for the research, design and development of advanced mathematical, machine learning and statistical algorithms expanding our current analytical tools and capabilities. Specific responsibilities include:
- Recommending or developing new learning algorithms suitable for choice modeling and marketing data
- Designing stochastic simulations for testing and validation of regression models, learning or optimization algorithms
- Improving the computational efficiency and scalability of various statistical models
- Development, implementation and maintenance of standard programming practices across analytics codebase.
- Keeping up with the state-of-the art in relevant areas – Machine Learning, Operations Research, Statistics, and Artificial Intelligence.