Machine Learning Engineer

Title: Machine Learning Engineer

Client: Professional Services Company

Location: Houston, Texas

Type: Contract

Rate: $50-55/hour DOE

Summary:

• Streamline overall data science analysis; the Machine Learning Engineer will focus on code geared to deploying key product campaigns.
• Manage, build, and develop production-ready advanced analytics in the areas of predictive modeling, cluster analysis, and data labeling.
• Role is designed to ultimately improve business planning, decision-making, and performance with data-driven insights.

Duties:

• Manage data science projects from start to finish, understanding the business problem to solve.
• Coordinate the ETL process, test/train work, and ultimately finalize a working predictive model that pushes scores/results to a data warehouse, dashboard, or CRM.
• Work with Python and data science libraries such as NumPy, pandas, TextBlob, and Matplotlib.
• Work with Alteryx advanced data prep program to disseminate large data sets.
• Build machine learning models with natural language processing (NLP) and its application in extracting and categorizing information from unstructured data.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of experience with advanced analytics work in Python analytics and Python development.
• Experience with Alteryx is a plus.
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) and its application in extracting and categorizing information from unstructured data.
• Ability to collaborate with both technical and business teammates to understand needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Ability to manage projects independently, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing requirements.

Education:

• Master of Science in Data Science preferred, and/or Bachelor’s in Data Science, MIS, Technology, or related field.