Data Scientist

Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals with definitive global data.

You are passionate about using your programming, data wrangling, and analytical expertise to drive product and business decisions. You are a skilled communicator that will provide thought leadership on metrics, features, and products to teams across the company. You have strong engineering experience and enjoy working in a rapidly changing environment.

* Build models to solve a wide range of problems: from predicting if a POI is closed to understanding anonymized user behavior in the real world * Design experiments and work with fellow engineers to ensure thoroughness and correctness on a variety of analyses * Use and commit to our data processing software * Author specification and lead technical projects * Propose creative strategies based on data-driven insights

* 2+ years of tech industry experience working on large scale data * Experience with maintaining production machine learning pipelines and using data science to solve business problems * A Bachelor degree in a quantitative field (Math, Statistics, Computer Science); advanced degrees are a plus * Strong coding experience (We use Python/scikit, Scala/Spark, Java/Hadoop) * Practices clean code and produces robust, portable workflows * Willingness to do dirty data processing and normalize data into a useful format * Excellent oral and written communication skills