The Associate Data Scientist will provide analysis and assist in developing machine-learning models to solve business problems for Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions.
Requirements
- 1 year of experience designing and building machine learning applications using either structured or unstructured datasets is required.
- Practical experience programming using Python, R or other high level scripting languages is required.
- Demonstrated experience with one or more machine learning techniques including logistic regression, decision trees, random forests and clustering is required.
- Knowledge and experience with SQL is preferred.
- Machine learning (intermediate)
- Statistical modeling (elementary)
- Supervised learning (intermediate)
Responsibilities
- Assist in identifying appropriate data sources to answer business question
- Extract, blend, cleanse, and organize data
- Visualize data
- Identify (and ameliorate) outliers and missing or incomplete records in the data
- Participate in the identification of appropriate techniques and algorithms for building model
- Create and test model
- Build application and embed model
Other
- Masters degree required, concentration in Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, or related quantitative field preferred
- 1+ years experience along with a Master’s degree in data or business analytics
- Must be able to translate data insights into action
- Must be able to organize and prioritize work to meet multiple deadlines
- Must be able to communicate effectively in both oral and written form
