Data Scientist

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What We Do:

Uptake's business is global, disruptive, differentiated and approaches the market in a new way. We help customers identify hidden value and create growth through business and technology innovation, while also enabling cost efficiencies that generate industry-leading business performance. Our team drives this success by connecting customers and partners to the value of the Internet of Things, business-centric architectures, and key technology transitions.

 
What You'll Do:
  • Collaborate with a team to analyze problems
  • Write functions/scripts to build datasets base
  • Model building and testing
  • Writing informal reports for internal use
  • Working with developers and implementation engineers to spec out database models and determine implementation of algorithms 

With slightly less frequency, the individual may:

  • Meet with a client to understand the needs for a project
  • Write a project scope for a consultant, as well as potentially managing the consulting relationship
 
Qualifications:
  • Knowledge of R, Matlab, or Python
  • Knowledge of building time series, spatial, or financial forecasting models for prediction
  • Familiarity with any or all of the following
  • Dirichlet Latent Process
  • Lasso,SpAM/Ridge regularization
  • Ensemble methods
  • Time series analysis (GARCH, auto-regressive or moving average, etc.)
  • Bayesian inference
  • Random forrest and decision tree models
  • Solid communication skills
  • Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, or related field.
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Location

We are located in River North just right off the Chicago Brown Line stop. We also provide you with a free shuttle service to/from Ogilvie and Union.

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