Product Data Scientist
- Work collaboratively with software and data engineers, and the product team to develop powerful predictive models that fuel our applications, and to deploy those to our partner institutions.
- Manipulate and transform raw tables from which you can extract insightful features for how we can deliver insights and actionable recommendations to users at the frontline of education.
- Work with ETL/data warehousing concepts as well as data science algorithms in signal processing, feature engineering and model building with quality assurance using visual analytics.
- Report data findings diligently and creatively to internal teams and externally to our partners.
- Apply an understanding of traditional business intelligence and data warehousing concepts (ETL, data modeling, and reporting).
- BS/MS/PhD in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or comparable experience
- Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, highly dimensional data from varying sources combined with a passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data and models.
- Strong working knowledge and demonstrated expertise with statistical concepts such as correlation, linear regression, optimization, and how they can be applied.
- Experience in Hadoop, Hive, and Map/Reduce programming
- Proficiency in at least one statistical analysis tool/framework (R, NumPy/SciPy/Pandas, Octave) and ability to learn languages and tools rapidly.
- Programming languages and tools to design efficient algorithms, such as Python, R, SAS, Java, Ruby, Clojure, Matlab, and Pig, for data manipulation and statistical analysis.
- Working knowledge of Bayesian inference (Monte Carlo Markov Chain)
- An office full of insanely talented, mission-driven people.
- The chance to use your powers to do something that truly matters.
- Being involved with a once-in-a-generation company, at the cutting edge of technology.
Civitas Learning brings together the best of leading-edge technology, design thinking, and data science in our mission to help a million more students a year learn well and finish strong. We are a mission-driven company dedicated to forever changing higher education for the better.
Using a cloud-based, predictive analytics platform and engaging applications, Civitas Learning helps partner institutions bring deep insights to decision makers, and personalized, real-time recommendations directly to the front lines for students, faculty, and advisors to measurably improve student learning, persistence, and graduation.
The reach of Civitas Learning’s partners includes more than 884 campuses reaching more than 3.19 million students. Civitas Learning is based in Austin, Texas.