Data Research Scientist

Affinity stitches together billions of data points from massive datasets to create a powerful, accurate representation of the world's professional relationship graph. Based on this data, we offer our users the insights and visibility they need to nurture and tap into the opportunities in their team's network.

What you'll be doing:

• Data mining or extracting usable data from valuable data sources
• Using machine learning tools to select features, create and optimize classifiers
• Carrying out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include all relevant information for developing analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and validating the integrity of data to be used for analysis
• Developing prediction systems and machine learning algorithms
• Presenting results in a clear manner
• Collaborate with the rest of our data pipeline engineering team to build the robust, high-scale systems that underlie all of our data processing.
• Analyzing large amounts of information to find patterns and solutions
• Take projects from concept to production, including feature engineering, model construction, deployment, and model observability and evaluation.
• Help define our data roadmap. Which problems are amenable to AI/ML techniques, and which are better solved via simpler non-statistical methods? How might we define and evaluate data quality? Which models and techniques are best suited to our domain? You'll collaborate with our product and engineering teams to help to answer these questions and more.

Qualifications:
Required:

• Experience in end-to-end development of the data science processes, experimentation, and documentation.
• Good knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, NLP, etc.) and their real-world advantages or disadvantages.
• You are a builder and care deeply about building systems and products that deliver meaningful value to users.
• You have experience working with large, multi-terabyte datasets, and are comfortable with tools for high-scale data ingestion, transformation, analysis, and prediction.
• You take pride in delivering exceptionally high quality, in terms of data accuracy, performance, and reliability
• You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across functional teams.
• You're eager to contribute your ideas and experiences to help Affinity continuously improve as a product and as a company.

Nice to have:

• Experience with NLP techniques and domains, including Named Entity Recognition and Sentiment Analysis.
• Ph.D. in a relevant discipline or Master's plus a comparable level of experience.
• Hands-on experience with big data processing engines like Apache Spark, Kafka.

Tech stack

On the back end, we use Ruby and PostgreSQL; our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on Kubernetes. To learn more about our tech, check out our Building Affinity blog.

What you'll enjoy at Affinity

• We live our values as playmakers who are obsessed with learning, care personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.
• Health Care coverage and flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy :)
• We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program - after all, one of our core values is that we're #obsessedwithlearning!
• We support our employee's overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; Transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.
• Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

About Affinity

We are passionate about helping dealmakers in the world's biggest relationship-driven industries to find, manage, and close the most important deals. Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the data exhaust of trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers with their networks to deliver automated relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We have raised over $120M and are backed by some of Silicon Valley's best firms. With over 1700 customers in 70 countries on our platform, a 4.8 Star Glassdoor rating and being ranked in the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies, we need more great people to help us scale even more.

The more diverse our team is, the more we'll be able to learn from each other, and the better our company and our product will be. Whatever your gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, veteran status, favorite Spotify playlist, or social, cultural, and economic background, we can't wait to welcome you to Affinity!