What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Recruiting From Scratch?
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.
Our Client
Our client is a research and development organization focused on the web3 ecosystem. They love the open nature of blockchain and intend to leverage it to increase opportunity and fairness. They are a cross-functional team of continuous learners that like to focus on difficult, challenging problems that take focus and diligence to crack. Our client is looking for highly motivated and adaptable individuals to work with us in delivering on their vision.
You will:
- Design and build models across a variety of use cases to deliver insights for internal and external stakeholders
- Participate in research and development process, staying up to date on recent work
- Work heavily with different data sets to create sources and signals necessary for modeling purposes
- Create visualizations and summaries of research efforts to present to research, engineering, and executive teams
You have:
- Curiosity, empathy, and an interest in working with a team in a highly collaborative environment
- An ability to adapt and work under large amounts of uncertainty
- 5 years developing production-quality software in a high-performance language like Python, C , Go, etc
- Experience with tools and frameworks like Pytorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, etc
- Experience developing and deploying production quality code
- Strong communication skills when it comes to explaining your decision and your work product
Bonus if you have:
- BA/MA, BS/MS, or PhD in a technical field
- Experience in gaming, economics, blockchain, mathematical or statistical modeling, AI/ML
- Experience designing or working with DeFi protocols
- Experience with smart contract development