Position: Data Scientist
Company: Ecto
Experience required: 2y
English level: fluent

We are looking for a star candidate to join Ecto as a Data Scientist. You will work closely with both our development and customer success teams to deliver an integral part of our product offering.

Ecto has developed an AI-powered decision support platform for animal farming, a global $1.7T industry. Ecto platform connects siloed data streams at animal farms and provides modular data science applications for farm personnel and management to reduce the spread of disease, identify mortality risks, reduce over and underfeeding, etc.

Key Responsibilities:
- Build analytic systems and predictive models
- Evaluate model performance against set business criteria
- Deploy models in a production environment
- Assess & validate quality of train//test datasets
- Analyze farming production and environmental data with statistical methods and ML techniques

Requirements:
- 2+ years of ML experience in a production environment
- High proficiency coding in Python using Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
- Proficiency in querying relational databases using SQL
- Experience developing interpretable models to drive value
- Experience in applying descriptive & predictive statistics and statistical inference
- Ability to provide meaningful visual representations of data using Matplotlib/Seaborn/Plotly
- Familiarity with common Unix/Linux cmd line tasks and version control tools like Git/Github
- High proficiency in English and strong communication skills


Would be a plus:
- 2+ years of academic research/scientific work
- Applied experience in building models for biological sciences
- Experience with classical (non-ML) modeling techniques 
- BI dashboards (Sisense, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.) 
- Cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with Argo, Kubernetes, Docker