RESPONSIBILITIES Kforce is working with a fast-growing global tech company in Los Angeles, CA and they are in search for a Senior Data Scientist. We are also growing our global reach, with offices in NY, London, Tel Aviv, LA, Bangkok, New Delhi, Sao Paulo and more. Our engineering Team builds high-scale, web and mobile e-commerce applications that run non-stop around the globe. We work in small collaborative teams to architect massively scalable and reliable systems. As a Sr. Data Scientist at this firm, you will work in our LA office with a very talented and tight-knit team, utilizing some of the latest technology and tools. This is a newly created role due to tremendous growth within the firm. You’ll be surrounded by a small-knit team of incredibly bright professionals that come from diverse backgrounds. In this role you will Identify and propose Data Science solutions for various product initiatives Design and build predictive customer behavior models for targeting and personalization Implement the applicable Machine Learning or statistics based algorithm for prediction and optimization and deliver the trained model to production Present findings to product team and technical team leads in a clear and actionable way Build and maintain code to populate HDFS, Hadoop with log from Kafka or data loaded from SQL production systems Design, build and support algorithms of data transformation, conversion, computation on Hadoop, Spark and other distributed Big Data Systems REQUIREMENTS Master’s degree is required, Ph.D. degree is preferred CS, EE, Physics or Computational Economics majors are preferred 5+ years of programming experience in JavaScala andor Python required 3+ years of full-time work experience in statistics, data mining and predictive modeling required SQL database experience Experience in collecting data fromexposing data to various data sources and services (API, JSON, XML) Sufficient experience in using popular machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch, Tensorflow Experience in implementing real-time machine learning and data mining algorithms in large scale environments a big plus Great communication skills and ability to explain data and analysis to a variety of audiences and key stakeholders Strong analytical skills to understand and interpret the data for machine learning Kforce is an Equal OpportunityAffirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.