Senior Data Scientist at Blocpower

About Iggy 🌱
The team at Iggy wants to help you understand place. Founded by an Ex-Airbnb data scientist (Lindsay), we empower data scientists, machine learning engineers and product developers  to build innovative products, models and apps that leverage location data and context. Today Iggy is focused on providing data enrichment products and tools to data scientists. It’s a really exciting time for us–we’re collaborating with design partners primarily in Real Estate to refine our first product. A year from now, we expect to be scaling this data enrichment product and branching out into providing more services and models for companies across various verticals looking to leverage geographic data.
We’re a seed-stage startup backed by some amazing institutional investors including First Round Capital and Amplify, an incredible micro VC Brianne Kimmel/WLV, the Airbnb Alumni Investment Syndicate AirAngels, as well as founders from Plaid, Looker, Instacart, and other high value-add investors.
You'll be joining a small, fun, mission-oriented and mature team. We're intentional about the products we build and the culture we create. We value creativity, curiosity, problem-solving, kindness and diversity. We love what we do for work, and we do other things too: our founder is an avid rock climber, traveler, and cheese fanatic. Other team members cook and garden, play video games and ride motorcycles. We value who you are outside/beyond work and are excited to support you in your passions.
Please read our diversity statement.
About the Role
We’re growing our Data Science team and looking for geospatial expertise. Specifically, we want to find someone who is excited about ideating, prototyping, and releasing models that power location-based insights for customers.
In this role you will help us build our initial product and bring it to market. We don’t have everything figured out so we’re looking for someone who has experience working in an early-stage company and who is experimental, comfortable with ambiguity, and loves to take on an ambitious challenge. You will be expected to bring your technical expertise and knowledge to inform our broader business strategy and be passionate about our audience - data scientists and ML engineers. You should be comfortable and confident sharing your perspective, goals, and results with the broader company as a core team member.
This role has an incredible opportunity for growth across technical, product and leadership/management realms. As an early stage startup, we have more hypotheses than answers. It makes for a wild ride and isn’t for everyone. But if you want to grow on multiple fronts, we’d love to chat.
This position is a full-time, benefits eligible position based anywhere in the United States. The salary range for this position is $145k-175k annually. As a member of our team, you’ll also be eligible for meaningful employee equity.
Success Looks Like ✅
Work closely with our product team to understand the location-related insights that are valuable to our early users, and work with the data science team to implement generalizable, scalable solutions.Provide input to Iggy’s data science roadmap, based on a solid understanding of customer needs and implementation details.Design and implement systems to understand and improve our data quality.Know what we can do with the data we have on hand, and what we could do with additional data sources. Help to prioritize data acquisition efforts.Be an Iggy evangelist. Stay up-to-date on the world of geospatial data science and have an opinion about where we fit in. Share your thoughts internally with the team, and externally with the world.
About You
You’ve been working in a hands-on data science role for at least 3-5 years, and for some or all of that time you’ve worked with geospatial data. You’re excited to use your technical expertise to answer questions like:•How do I know whether a length of coastline is a place I’d actually go to enjoy the beach?•Is there a reliable way to distinguish properties that are on the beach from those that are a short walk from the beach?•How can we measure the quality of our Points of Interest data? 
You are comfortable using open-source frameworks to ingest, manipulate, and analyze geo data.You get energy from solving problems for other data scientists like yourself. You’d be keen to interact with them directly in order to learn about their pain points and show off your solutions.You’re comfortable enough with cloud-based deployment frameworks (like Docker, GCP/AWS/Azure) to use them with some guidance/support from the engineering team.You have experience in, or understand the implications of, working in an early-stage startup. You’re not afraid to learn quickly, stretch your skill set, or pivot as needed.

We'd love to see a side project/portfolio or even better, a blog post from any potential candidates!
Benefits 🎁
We offer a robust package of benefits that includes:
Remote First Company - work from where you want to live (in the US)!100% Company paid premiums for medical, dental and vision50% paid premiums for dependents401(k) retirement planEmployer-paid Life Insurance and AD&D BenefitsPaid Parental LeaveFlexible Time Off Professional Development Team off-sites
Iggy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for all current and future employees.
How to Apply
Email us at careers@askiggy.com and specify the job you are applying for in the subject line. Applications that include links to github, portfolio, and/or blog posts will be fast-tracked for review. No agencies please.