Data Scientist, Entry Level - Jobright.ai : Job Details

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Job Summary:

Redwood Materials is a company focused on creating a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products. They are seeking a Data Scientist to work on critical business and engineering problems, utilizing predictive and optimization modeling while managing data science projects and stakeholder interactions.

Responsibilities:

• Running predictive and prescriptive modeling-based analyses to inform operational and strategic decisions. Packaging results of these analyses concisely and professionally and presenting to stakeholders.

• Writing algorithmic code for data science-driven apps to be used by Redwood Materials business and operations teams.

• Building data science tooling for connecting with key data sources and cleaning/munging data.

• Working with users, software engineers, and data engineers to identify key issues that could be solved with predictive modeling or decision algorithms. Performing requirements gathering and stakeholder management in the development of solutions for these issues.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business Analytics, Analytics, Operations Research, Data Science, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering

• Strong software architecture and coding skills. We are looking for folks capable of developing and deploying pipelines and writing clean, maintainable code, much of which will be used in production.

• 2 years of professional software development experience in Python, Julia, or similar preferred.

• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure for data and compute pipelines

• Excellent data skills including exploratory data analysis, pipeline design, clean and efficient data munging, databases, and data lakes

• On-the-job, internship, or research experience working with advanced predictive or prescriptive modeling techniques such as neural nets, integer optimization, reinforcement learning, or similar

• Knowledge of Polars and/or Pandas (Polars preferred), SQL, and either optimization modeling packages or machine learning/predictive modeling packages in Python

• Excellent communication skills, ability to discover high-value problems and design solutions in conjunction with stakeholders across multiple teams

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.

• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards

• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.

• Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone

Preferred:

• 2 years of professional software development experience in Python, Julia, or similar preferred.

• Background in supply chain/logistics a plus

• Understanding of battery chemistry and/or chemical engineering principles a plus

Company:

Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles and sustainable materials for circular supply chains. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Redwood Materials has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.