Lead Decision Scientist

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Chowbus is a fast growing, well-funded food startup headquartered here in Chicago on a mission to help diners to discover new and exquisite dishes, and to give traditional mom and pop restaurants a fighting chance to succeed without compromising who they truly are. By building a super app, our goal is to be the one stop shop for everything related to food.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to join our team and help Chowbus raise its awesome platform to the next level, powering our hyperlocal food delivery business with predictive data science and machine learning models.  You would join and help found our initial Data Science practice within our overall Data organization, with a focus on building and deploying productionalized data science as a central cog in Chowbus’ application machinery.


Responsibilities include: 

  • Establish Chowbus’ young data science platform and practice
  • Lead and take full responsibility over an initially small team, with vision for team growth
  • Envision, create, and execute a Data Science roadmap
  • Collaborate with business, analytics, product, and engineering teams to gather requirements, and design data science models in various arenas - order/supply forecasting, delivery estimation, dispatching algorithms, recommendations, taxonomy, and more
  • Lead the process to build, test, train, deploy and iterate production quality machine learning model artifacts that run in batch as well as real-time
  • Work with data engineers to build solid data pipeline input into data science models
  • Develop an expert level understanding of Chowbus business model and operations, and innovate to advance our business through machine learning 


We are excited if you... 

  • Want ownership and responsibility!
  • Have 6-plus years of data transformation, statistical modeling and/or deep learning experience as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer
  • Have experience with data science, machine learning and deep learning frameworks (e.g., SparkML, Pandas, Sci-kit Learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch)
  • Are excited about putting models into production and see them power the business!
  • Have experience with data preparation techniques (e.g. data cleansing, data augmentation, data generation)
  • Have programming expertise with Python or R
  • Are skilled at visually communicating analytical findings to people of diverse backgrounds
  • Completed education in statistics, mathematics, computer science or another quantitative field. Masters Degree preferred
  • Have advanced knowledge of SQL, data warehouse modeling and data design patterns
  • Have an unquenchable curiosity and excitement for data, and a love for great food!


Even Better if you...

  • Have led a Data Science team in a startup environment
  • Have experience managing teams / projects within an Agile framework
  • Have worked with big data technologies and datastores (e.g., Databricks, Spark, Snowflake, AWS)
  • Have experience with time series forecasting and/or ETA estimation modeling


Chowbus is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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55 E Jackson Blvd. Suite 450, Chicago, IL 60605

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