Data Scientist

Cloudera delivers the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure platform for data management and analytics, built on Apache Hadoop and latest open source technologies.

The Data Science team at Cloudera is a small, expert team of six based in the US and UK. We provide our expertise in methods and tools (like R, Python, and Spark) internally and to our customers. We're engineers and statisticians, the practical types, who regularly build and contribute to open source tools. We also collaborate with our architects and customer's analysts to prototype new analytics projects and "teach the organization to fish" when it comes to analytics. All of us talk about data science a lot, with each other and the rest of the world. We regularly evangelize the practice of data science through writing and speaking, and provide strategy and advice for Cloudera and our customers.

In collaboration with the rest of the team, you'll become an expert in open source tools for analytics in the Hadoop ecosystem, and identify and implement improvements to them. Like us, you'll spend plenty of time with the community and our customers. Depending on your areas of expertise you'll be called on to provide advice on a problem. Once in awhile, you may travel to meet customers and assist our architects in delivering a solution to a data science problem. You'll help us create blog posts and white papers, and deliver talks about important issues and techniques in data science as well.

* Data science is a broad and quickly changing field. You will be a good fit for our team if you are up for both learning new tools and techniques and sharing your knowledge with others. A data scientist who will be successful on our team will enjoy, more than anything, teaching the world about data science. An ideal candidate will be quite comfortable acting independently and will enjoy talking to customers about their challenges and rapidly building valuable prototypes. * A data scientists who will be successful in this job is likely to have 2+ years of industry experience, and a BS / MS (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a similar field. A working knowledge of Linux and a strong working knowledge of linear algebra, statistics and essential machine learning techniques will be important. Working knowledge of Hadoop components (Spark, HDFS, YARN, etc.) is not required but will be helpful. * For us, specialized expertise in an advanced technique like NLP, anomaly detection, or recommenders would be a plus, as is expertise in an industry (healthcare, telecom, e-tailing, etc.) * Cloudera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.