516:Senior Data Scientist (March 2021)

Senior Data Scientist

Hippo is a hyper-growth Unicorn startup that is taking the market by storm. Our technology-first approach modernizes the homeownership and insurance industry, from IoT monitoring devices to proactive home protection and our industry-leading cloud software.

We opened a new, cutting edge technology innovation center in TLV. Our small, elite, and rapidly growing team is responsible for tackling Hippo’s core business challenges. These include a diverse range of data science challenges around the entire customer's life-cycle, from marketing through risk, smart home (IoT), customer support, and fraud detection.

The Role:

As a senior data scientist, your responsibilities will include:

Take on projects end-to-end from business questions all the way to production.

Creative and curious thinking about core problems in the company.

Research and experimentation with state-of-the-art machine learning, artificial intelligence, optimization and statistics algorithms to solve business problems, both current and beyond-the-horizon.

Improving and innovating on our data science practices, methodology, and projects.

Embedding deep learning and online optimization algorithms into our production systems.

Lead and design data science, and data collection process and practices throughout Hippo.

 

Requirements:

Ph.D./Msc in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Operations Research/Statistics/Mathematics/Physics, or equivalent, preferably focusing on machine learning / AI

Proficiency in Deep learning

Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience

Curious, creative, and hungry for impact

Expertise in machine learning algorithms and tools such as Tensorflow, Keras, and Pytorch

Strong coding skills in Python

Experience with SQL

Experience in deploying machine learning products in our live production environment – an advantage

Familiarity with MLOps methods – Docker, Kubernetes, GCP Etc – an advantage

Experience with Spark and other big data tools – an advantage

Team player, responsible, delivery-oriented

Strong communication and leadership skills

Excellent spoken and written English

 

Excellent conditions!!!

Please send you CV with the Job title and number to: Alumni@weizmann.ac.il