Data Scientist

You are a Data Scientist, that likes building and owning products?

At Unacast, we are developing tools for rapidly growing data industries. We innovate to create new tools which leverage sources of data that are only now reaching maturity. The opportunity to grow and develop with these datasets has never been more optimal.

As a result, we are not only developers, we are inventors! We wish to drive the industry forward by creating tools that have not been possible previously, due to new advances in cloud technology, ML, and data sources.

Do you want to be part of that journey? Come and join us!

Unacast is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply

We are hiring a Data Scientist with experience in machine learning

At Unacast, we are building a platform to process some of the largest communications datasets available. This is a rapidly growing industry, and our product scope and reach is expanding to meet this demand. As a result, we are excited to be expanding our team, and are searching for an enthusiastic Data Scientist to join us.

Our teams are multidisciplinary, with product, data engineering, data science, machine learning, and data analysis coming together in one team to develop a competitive data platform. While closely collaborating with various teams and stakeholders within the company, we have the freedom of innovation and experimentation to develop high-quality and privacy-friendly location data insights that can change the location data industry for good. Specifically for the role we are looking for, you will develop and improve tools in active deployment that can contextualize raw geolocation data. Unacast emphasizes anonymisation and privacy, ensuring the location events never even have to leave a customer's servers (thus ensuring security).

This is an on-site hybrid position (with 2-3 days in the week working in our Oslo office, or more if you want!). In case of a change of location, Unacast will not be able to handle Visa application support or relocation.

Our main office is on Karl Johans Gate in the heart of Oslo, where we meet every week with our international colleagues, both for work and for socializing. Our welcoming office has a focus on comfort, and this is reflected in the surroundings. Being part of Unacast means being part of a friendly and efficient workplace, with opportunities to grow and advance within the company.

What you will be doing

• Developing new tools for our platform, that can process and contextualize vast quantities of location specific data
• Improving existing processes, and ideating new ones
• Identifying and actionising areas where ML workflows could be employed to better serve the product needs
• Efficiently and flexibly writing BigQuery SQL queries that can be incorporated into the data pipelines, to solve newly arising challenges 

Who we think you are

• You have an academic degree equivalent to a Bachelor's or higher in Data Science or a similar field.
• You have at least 2 years of experience in Data Science, preferably using machine learning in production.
• You have rich experience in using Python and SQL for data processing (preferably within the BigQuery dialect).
• You have some experience using ML in deployed products.
• You have excellent communication skills and are proficient in English.
• You are a positive force. Adaptable and full of curiosity, you enjoy a high degree of collaboration and working in a team.
• You love tackling challenges and are passionate about data insights.

... and it is positive if

• You are comfortable with Java and Python.
• You are familiar with GCP.
• You have some basic Data Engineering skills (Airflow especially)
• You have experience working with geospatial data.

Most relevant technologies

• BigQuery
• Python
• Java
• Git
• Apache Airflow
• Visualization tools: Kepler.gl, matplotlib, +

What we expect of you 

• We expect you to be positive-minded with a “can do” attitude to tackle challenges together with your team.
• We are a startup, so things can change fast and you need to be agile and proactive on this journey.
• We have customers using the product daily, so some on-call may be required.
• Be your own CEO, and have fun seriously! (Unacast guiding principles)