by Angela Guess
White Pages is looking for a Data Scientist in Seattle, WA. According to the post, “As a data scientist and engineer you appreciate that the value of data is realized through effective modeling, analysis, and engineering, and you have strong skills and passion for all three. You enjoy doing analytic work, prototyping new features, and collaborating closely with engineering teams to bring new ideas, technology, and features to our users. You are interested in all phases of the data lifecycle: understanding and onboarding data from multiple providers in an automated and rigorous way, building and maintaining data models that support analysis and feature development, and developing systems that meet high standards of data integrity and availability.”
Qualifications include the following: “A passion for big data and big data manipulation. A philosophy of iteration and continuous improvement. Strong demonstrated software engineering skills, preferably in an agile/incremental environment. Experience in database design, implementation and maintenance. Significant experience applying machine-learning and data-mining technologies in a production setting. Experience building large-scale systems with technologies like Hadoop, Pig, Solr, Lucene, and Mahout. Competency in statistical modeling and inference. Experience building production systems on a NoSQL platform.”
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