Staff Data Scientist

7+ years of experience making significant positive impacts in a professional data science or machine learning role
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field required
Expert-level knowledge, skills, and abilities in creating, developing, and applying a variety of new or existing machine learning and statistical algorithms
Expert-level Python and/or R knowledge, skills, and abilities
Excellent statistical analysis skills, with a solid understanding of experimental design and time series analysis a strong plus
Superior analytical and problem solving skills
Expert-level knowledge, skills, and abilities in database manipulation, query languages, and graph data schemas
Experience manipulating complex data to apply business rules for improved feature engineering within data lakes, distributed systems, and data streams

Provide subject matter expertise and ownership of one or more of the company’s core business domains
Establish and lead best practices, setting the example for the team
Initiate and drive collaboration with stakeholders, architects, and data engineers to discover, define, cleanse, and refine the data needed for analysis and modeling
Analyze large and novel datasets to extract actionable insights to inform model development and understand consumer behavior
Provide customized views of large and complex datasets to support data analysis and business decision-making
Inform experimental design to formulate solutions addressing major business challenges and innovation opportunities
Build models using a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques, from selecting the best type of model for the problem to using advanced techniques to measure and optimize model performance
Harden data pipelines and models for production deployment and monitoring of performance over time
Provide mentoring and education to this team and other teams across the company
Embrace and uphold Ibotta’s Core Values of Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency, & A good idea can come from anywhere

A history of and passion for driving important decisions using data and data storytelling
A love of learning and continuous development, including staying at the forefront of the latest advances in data science and machine learning. Broad-scale community contributions to the fields of data science and machine learning in the way of conference presentations, professional publications, and/or recognized internet presence are a strong plus
Experience in MLOps a strong plus
Spark or PySpark experience is a strong plus