Data Science Manager at Infogrid

Infogrid is helping protect the planet and improve the lives of billions of people by making every building a smart building.

Our goal is to be the global provider for connected devices in smart buildings. We already handle millions of events every day from tens of thousands of sensors and we’d like you to help us scale that by an order of magnitude over the coming months.

Sustainability is at our heart; buildings account for 39% of global carbon emissions and we’re creating real solutions to impact this!

We are still early in our journey but have already achieved a lot; we raised a successful series A funding round, grew 5x in employee numbers within 12 months, and voted one of the top 10 most flexible places to work.

Want to know more about how we'd building Infogrid? Our CTO wrote a blog post about this.


Using data science we are developing a platform to help facilities managers increase the comfort for occupants of their buildings whilst decreasing their costs and environmental impact. Through both direct sensor readings and inferred, machine learning-based outputs we surface previously unknown or unmeasurable information to offer a holistic picture of buildings and their use. As a result we can offer insights, recommended actions, and predictions to aid planning in a real-time fashion never before possible or practical - for reasons both of hardware availability as well as data storage and processing. We innovate at the edge of what can be done in the new era of IoT, and data science is central to the company’s goal of offering ever-more useful insights to our clients.  

We maintain strong software development practices at all times and, above all, a mindset focussed on deployment. It is through this culture the data science team ensures its effectiveness and ability to quickly deliver value to our clients. In this way the data science team remains central to all stages of product development from innovation, development and testing, deployment, iteration and ongoing maintenance. We seek those with a strong focus on product development and driving customer value alongside robust software development best practice, mathematical and machine learning focus, management of machine learning deployment, and a growth mindset.


In the Data Science Team We:

Design novel software applications based on sensor inputs and machine learning models from concept through physical experimentation with sensors, to development of software products, to production deployment in the cloud
Collaborate with other domains of the business such as DevOps, front- and backend-development teams, sales, and product development
Experiment with new technologies to harness an unparalleled dataset through innovative ideation
Retain robust software engineering practices at all times with an eye always on long-term maintainability, readability, reliability



We Look For:

A strong academic background grounded in mathematics and statistics, or equivalent work experience
A fluent level in Python
A self-directing attitude and a growth mindset
Experience innovating new machine-learning products for real-time event-driven applications is desired
Always a preference for the 80% solution in production over the perfect solution on a laptop
A keen interest in product development and awareness of commercial factors
Experience deploying machine learning models in production environments is required
Demonstrated success in a line management position is required



What You Would be Doing:

Line management, training, coaching for your immediate reports as well as the wider team
Championing good software design and code quality through code reviews
Regular setting of goals and working to ensure good alignment across the various software development teams in the company as well as product development prioritisation
Owning planning and implementation of projects over the course of a quarter and beyond
Implementation of software solutions; whilst reduced owing to the focus on management there is still an expectation of impact through software and model development



We think Infogrid is a great place to work - we’re a recently funded and rapidly growing startup so it’s not perfect but:

❤️ Feel good about your work: Infogrid is actively helping big companies reduce their environmental footprint. We also offset everyone’s carbon footprint.
🤸 We’re flexible: We encourage remote working and offered flexible working hours before COVID and we’ll keep that flexibility afterwards.
📚 Learn and get promoted: Join us at the start of our journey - we’re growing quickly and believe in promoting from within. You can learn and grow your career here.
🌟 Improve yourself: We give everyone a day per month to focus on personal development.
🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽 Make friends: Everyone here is lovely.
🏠 Added bonus: We give everyone options in the company.
🚀 Join a legitimately secure tech start-up: $15.5M funding round is great of course but more importantly we have real paying customers and a good, growing revenue stream.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to your recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.