About the Company
Posthaste Labs is a boutique consulting firm that provides development and data services to VCs and startups. Our focus is on building the highest quality products that will enable our customers to quickly gain traction in the market while ensuring that their code and data ecosystems are robust and able to scale.
About the Role:
As a Sr. Data Scientist with Posthaste Labs, you will be the lead for all algorithm development and implementations. This position offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation, working closely with the client in a leading BioTech firm while having autonomy to determine the tools, technologies and processes. You will work directly with the client, shaping requirements, defining timelines and executing on agreed-upon deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Search optimization: Build a search results ranking algorithm that optimizes results based off of dynamic user inputs.
- Predictive classification and labeling: Process unstructured text data about people and create a classification models to label people. Create a recommendation system to identify similar individuals based off of their unstructured data.
- Entity resolution: Develop matching algorithms that will reconcile data about entities from disparate sources, rank matches and intelligently correlate records together.
- Measurement: Lead the analytical measurement and efficacy of the entity resolution and classification processes.
- Client engagement: Proactively identify gaps, issues and data needs while sharing opinions with client. Lead interactions and projects with clear communication.
Experience and Qualifications:
- 5+ years building classification and prediction models
- 5+ years creating structured data and labeling data from unstructured free-text
- 5+ years working with Python, Spark and Snowflake
- 3+ years in startups
- Proven experience moving analytical workloads into scalable production processes
- Highly opinionated on analytical approaches and able to articulate tradeoffs between different methodologies
- Able to curate a plan to convert a highly ambiguous project into a structured and well-managed project
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