Data Scientist

About Us

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale. upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management, Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build the careers of tomorrow.

upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19

upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-

after startups in India

upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India

by FastCompany.

We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech

upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India

program

Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Role Summary

Are you excited by the challenge and the opportunity of applying data-science and data- analytics techniques to the fast developing education technology domain? Do you look forward to, the sense of ownership and achievement that comes with innovating and creating data products from scratch and pushing it live into Production systems? Do you want to work with a team of highly motivated members who are on a mission to empower individuals through education?If this is you, come join us and become a part of the upGrad technology team. At upGrad the technology team enables all the facets of the business - whether it’s bringing efficiency to ourmarketing and sales initiatives, to enhancing our student learning experience, to empowering our content, delivery and student success teams, to aiding our student’s for their desired careeroutcomes. We play the part of bringing together data & tech to solve these business problems and opportunities at hand.We are looking for an highly skilled, experienced and passionate data-scientist who can come on-board and help create the next generation of data-powered education tech product. The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a Data Science role before wherein he/she is comfortable working with unknowns, evaluating the data and the feasibility of applying scientific techniques to business problems and products, and have a track record of developing and deploying data-science models into live applications. Someone with a strong math, stats, data-science background, comfortable handling data (structured+unstructured) as well as strong engineering know-how to implement/support such data products in Production environment.Ours is a highly iterative and fast-paced environment, hence being flexible, communicating well and attention-to-detail are very important too. The ideal candidate should be passionate about the customer impact and comfortable working with multiple stakeholders across the company.

Roles & Responsibilities

3+ years of experience in analytics, data science, machine learning or comparable role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science/Data Analytics, Math/Statistics or related discipline

Experience in building and deploying Machine Learning models in Production systems

Strong analytical skills: ability to make sense out of a variety of data and its relation/applicability to the business problem or opportunity at hand

Strong programming skills: comfortable with Python - pandas, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; Databases - SQL and noSQL

Strong communication skills: ability to both formulate/understand the business problem at hand as well as ability to discuss with non data-science background stakeholders

Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives

Skills Required

Experience in Text Analytics, Natural Language Processing

Advanced degree in Data Science/Data Analytics or Math/Statistics

Comfortable with data-visualization tools and techniques

Knowledge of AWS and Data Warehousing

Passion for building data-products for Production systems - a strong desire to impact

the product through data-science technique