Data Scientist-Machine Learning Engineer Full Time

You will be joining a unique innovation team of 6-8 developers tasked with reshaping the future of the jobs and careers market. Together you will build a next generation platform with tools to match skilled talent and jobseekers with companies looking to hire. This is a chance to work on something that will impact 100’s of thousands of people around the world!

You will get excited by your work and the possibilities to deliver a “wow” user experience across the product interfaces.

Job Description

Would you like to translate terabytes of data into opportunities for 100’s of thousands of jobseekers every day. Cpl is creating, Ireland’s most innovative match platform and is looking for rock star Data Scientists to join our highly successful Personalization, Predictions and Optimisation Teams within the Front End and Back End department.

This product development team crunches endless amounts of data to provide our customers and end users with the best possible experience. They focus on anything from understanding and predicting market data, to ranking all opportunities on websites, optimizing across many marketing channels, and providing our customers with the most relevant candidate recommendations.

As a Data Scientist, you’ll work side by side with Developers, Designers, Marketers and Business Owners, and take full ownership of your work – from the initial idea-generation phase to the implementation of the final product on our website. Our ideal candidate is results-focused, innovative and has solid quantitative background and a good business understanding.

You’re responsible

• Work in a multi-disciplined team where you’ll take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine learning models. You’ll use the model’s output to create and improve products for our customers, preferably in short development cycles
• Research & Development on how to improve customers’ experience, by using our vast amount of data
• Actively contribute to taking Data Science at Cpl to the next level

You’re skilled

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role
• Masters, PhD, or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, etc.)
• Excellent English communication skills; the ability to convey your message to team members and other stakeholders
• Prior experience with a few of the following models: Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, (Deep) Neural Networks, Hidden Markov Models, Conditional Random Fields, Game Theory, Mechanism Design and/or Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Required

• Experience with at least one scripting language, e.g. R, and one programming language, e.g. Python, PHP, 
• Exposure to SQL, Non SQL and relational databases

Preferred

• Experience implementing a real-world Recommender, Matching, Ranking system
• Worked with the Hadoop Ecosystem
• Implemented multi-core/distributed software, preferably in a Linux environment

Infrastructure

• AWS
• MySQL
• Mongoa DB
• Python
• Symfony Framework
  • PHP
• Ionic Framework
  • HTML5
  • AngularJS
• JavaScript
• CSS3

You will work in the same innovation lab as the rest of your team and will get to know everyone on a personal level. You will be going the team in the early phase of growth and we’re keen to have your input into the working environment that enables your best work.

Most of the team will work from 8am/10am –4pm/6pm but we are flexible with the needs of staff, it’s about reaching goals here, not watching the clock.

We can offer an opportunity to accelerate your professional experience faster than you could elsewhere. You will be given as many responsibilities as you are willing to take upon yourself, and with which you have proven some ability. Since our company is growing fast, opportunities to expand your experience will never stop, and we will be able to continuously make sure that everyone has a what they need to grow.