The Weather Channel

Senior Data Scientist

Madison, WI, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4432 days ago

PythonJavaC++MATLABMachine LearningData ScienceStatisticsForecastingResearchLeadership

About the role

Working with weather data is really unique and amazing; weather is in perpetual evolution, generates petabytes of new data every month, and deeply impacts people and businesses on various timescales.
We serve a wide variety of businesses including renewable energies, energy traders, utility companies, insurance, retailers, and consumer product groups.
As a consequence you will apply and/or learn a wide variety of statistical techniques including time series analysis, high dimensional clustering, machine learning, data mining and Bayesian modeling.

Improve operations by conducting systems analysis
recommending changes in policy and procedures.
Provide estimates of work effort and impact of projects and tasks, and provide team leadership, as required.
Play an active role in the product requirements process, giving feedback to product management when challenges arise.
3-5 years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated achievements.
Can demonstrate mastery of general scientific computing softwares such as R, MATLAB, Octave, etc.
Experience using/implementing non-parametric regression such as Neural Net, SVM, Random Forest, Projection Pursuit, MARS, Radial Basis Functions, AdaBoost, GLM
Experience in Predictive Modeling including Non-Parametric Regression, Bayesian Inference, Hidden Markov Models, Generalized ARMA, or Kalman Filtering is a plus.

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