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

Requirements:

• Experience with R, Matlab, or Python
• Experience 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