Senior Data Scientist

Aarki is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join its team in Yerevan office of the company.

is an ad-creating platform transforming mobile app marketing using big data, machine learning, and large customer reach.

Company was launched in 2010. Today Aarki employs around 100 people. Its headquarter is located in San-Francisco, one office is in the Philippines, company is planning to set up an office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 15 people are working in the Armenian office of the company.

Senior Data Scientist

Responsibilities

Research, design, and implement algorithms and pipelines for solving optimisation and machine learning problems
Understand data domain and translate business requirements into code
Analyse system performance relative to various key metrics and establish a framework for fast iterative development

Salary: $4,000-6,000 net

Qualifications & Competencies

Bachelor's in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or equivalent
Strong working knowledge of math and computer science fundamentals
Proven track record in one of the following machine learning domains: recommender systems, unbalanced classification problems, Bayesian inference, factorization models, neural networks, deep learning
Strong working knowledge of machine learning, data modeling and visualization in Python, R, or other languages
Experience with databases and SQL
Experience with deploying machine learning models to production systems
Good understanding of probability and statistics
Good understanding of numerical optimisation algorithms, convergence, stochastic optimisation methods

Would be a plus

Experience with computational advertising problems
Parallel computing and "big data" frameworks (e.g. Spark)
Experience with data warehousing systems and MPP databases
Familiarity with network and system administration of high throughput/high load environments
Master's or Ph.D.

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Meet the team

Why Armenia?

Steady growth

Armenia is emerging as a new hub for tech professionals. For the past several years Armenian tech sector retains 27%+ consistent annual growth. As a result in 2017 turnover of IT sector equaled to 7% of total GDP of the country.

The steady growth of the sector serves as a base for the development of the tech community. In Yerevan 5,3% of all working populations is employed in tech sector, making every 19th of the city's working population a developer.

Savouring the moment

Competitive salaries in addition to the low cost of living create comfortable living conditions. Yerevan is 31% cheaper than Moscow, 66% cheaper than Los Angeles and 49% cheaper than Beirut.

Armenia is a place to enjoy food and not to worry about its condition. Armenian agricultural sector traditionally is a strong one in the country. This is one of the reasons National Geographic included Yerevan to the list of 6 unexpected cities for food lovers.

Safe environment

Yerevan is one of the safest cities in the world. Sincere hospitality and openness are embedded in people's nature, that is the reason for a low crime index. Armenia is among top-15 safest countries in the world, during night time Yerevan is safer than cities like Moscow, Berlin, London or Vienna. Regarding children's security and overall well-being, according to The Children's Society (UK), Armenia is in the top-3.

High quality education

In Armenia there are several educational programs that do not have analogues in the world: Ayb school, UWC international college and Tumo Center for Creative Technologies, where 15 thousand children are taught programming by the leading experts in the field on a free basis. In addition, starting from 2011 chess has been included in compulsory curriculum in all schools across Armenia (BBC article).

Wonderful nature

Armenia is a museum in itself, a place to discover and draw inspiration from. On the weekends one by one you can explore 9 out of 12 climate zones represented in the country.

Yerevan is the world second city in regards to outdoor possibilities, water access and presence of mountains and hills in the city and 286 sunny days per year. One hour drive from the city there is ski resort, six hour drive and you are in Batumi, Black seaside resort city.