Junior Data Scientist Job at IDinsight

IDinsight is an international development organization that helps policymakers and managers make socially impactful decisions using rigorous evidence.

Responsibilities:

• Working with clients to understand their needs: Understanding their current processes and pain points and identifying which of these can be framed as a tractable data science problem.
• Wrangling/cleaning government or client data: from extracting data from SQL databases and making api calls to scraping websites and cleaning survey data.
• Designing, testing, improving various algorithms: From OOTB scikit-learn algorithms to bespoke ones.
• Synthesizing, visualizing, and communicating results: Dashboards, plots, interactive viz, presentations and reports
• Working with other team members to test and deploy these solutions.

• Experience living and working in developing country settings.
• B.S./B.S.E. degree in Applied Math, Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, or Similar Technical Field
• Experience working on optimization and unsupervised learning problems.
• Experience working with SQL, custom APIs and AWS products like RDS, EC2, and Lambda.
• Experience working with GIS software such as QGIS.
• Experience working with satellite imagery / remote sensing data.