Data Scientist
We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the AI & Data Solutions Team at tronc, Inc. in our Chicago office. The team’s mission is to build solutions powered by data and machine learning to increase the value of existing digital assets and build new products and businesses that can take advantage of tronc’s data and business model.
As a Data Scientist with our AI & Data Solutions team you will have the chance to develop data models from our rich new content that is viewed and read by nearly 60 million people a month around the world as well as audience data, web traffic data, advertising data, and many other proprietary and third-party data sources. You’ll also be looking at how we combine news data with other data sources available throughout the company to design innovative new data driven products. Ours is a cross-functional team including engineers, data scientists, designers, and product managers working with a wide variety of different groups throughout the company to help bring tronc’s digital assets into the 21st century.
Responsibilities:- Selecting features, building and optimizing machine learning models
- Extending company’s data with third party data sources
- Working with product teams to design and instrument additional data collection in products
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
- Creating automated machine learning pipelines and systems including constant tracking of its performance
- Strong programming, preferred Python
- Understanding of regression, classification, and clustering and their use with text data
- 2 years industry experience implementing machine learning models in production systems