Principal Data Scientist at Alight

Our story
At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”
It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology, gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com
The Role
The Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML) foundation team of Alight is looking for a qualified data scientist with Natural Language Processing (NLP) experience.  We are looking for someone to analyze large amounts of raw text data to find patterns that will help improve our company and the solutions we provide to our clients.  We will rely on you to build data products to extract valuable business insights.  In this role, it is essential you are highly analytical, a critical thinker and a problem solver with a passion for machine learning. We’re a small team so you’ll need to be comfortable taking your ideas from theory into deployment.  You will need to understand the business opportunities, then understand, collect and prepare data for modeling, and finally build, evaluate and operationalize the models.
Key Characteristics
Strong understanding of general AI/ML/DL concepts including but not limited to supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learningProven experience building, deploying and monitoring production models using NLP TechniquesSelf-driven and comfortable working without detailed direction - sometimes you’ll have to build the path yourselfAble to identify and solve problems on your ownStrong presentation and communication skillsIntellectually curious with an ability to focus on what matters to the businessDetail oriented
Education, Knowledge, Experience
3+ years building robust machine learning models in a production environment, understanding how to write production-ready code.Analytical mind-set – problem solving through analytical techniques that meet the rigorous standards of the data science industry.3+ years’ experience in Python/R and Machine Learning (decision trees, multivariate and logistic regression, kNN, kMeans, NLP, Neural Networks etc.).3+ year’s of experience with NLP and deep learning5+ years’ experience in data analysis, applied statistics or econometrics in a business environment with large-scale, complex data-sets.GPT-3 or open AI experience is a plus.Strong communicator – articulating the commercial value of data and analytics to senior stakeholders/clients (internal & external) through data visualization and storytelling.Inquisitive – ability to dig into new and challenging datasets, uncovering pertinent and business relevant information.Experience in AWS Sagemaker StudioExperience with Spark and Spark-MLExpertise with Python, SQL, R and other leading programming and statistical applicationsExperience working with and manipulating large data sets, including Big Data tools and platforms (e.g. Hadoop)MS/PhD in a quantitative discipline
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We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
New York Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Statement.Pay Transparency Statement in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the New York City pay transparency ordinance, and any other similar laws or ordinances:Alight takes into consideration a candidate’s experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, and internal equity when determining an offer for a successful employment candidate, and Alight does so on an individualized, non-discriminatory basis.  Therefore, an offer may fall anywhere in between the estimated minimum base salary for this role of $113,800.00/year (for full time employees) and the estimated maximum base salary for this role of $253,700.00/year (for full time employees). In addition to a base salary, this position may be bonus eligible. Alight also offers a comprehensive benefits package; for specific details on our benefits package, please visit: https://bit.ly/Alight-Benefits-US22
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