Mid-Level or Senior Data Scientist | Yassir | South Africa

Job description

Yassir is hiring a mid-level or senior Data Scientist for its AI team. Its official advert lists Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, among the available locations and describes the job as full-time and hybrid. The team works on machine learning for pricing, dispatch, fraud detection and personalization. Responsibilities include exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model development and deployment, monitoring model performance and business impact, and working with product and engineering teams. Yassir has separate specialist pricing and personalization vacancies; this is a distinct general data scientist requisition. Salary and application deadline: not stated by the employer. Apply directly: https://jobs.lever.co/Yassir/5cce871c-6c88-43e3-9ebc-b808377696dc/apply

Requirements

Applicants need a master’s degree or higher in a relevant quantitative field, strong statistics and machine learning skills, and production-quality Python and SQL. Yassir asks for at least two years of industry experience, with more experience needed for senior consideration. It also requires software engineering knowledge, cloud data and ML services experience, an understanding of the full model lifecycle, and clear professional English communication. Google Cloud Platform experience is preferred; mobility, on-demand, financial services, pricing, fraud, dispatch or personalization experience is advantageous.

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