Associate Data Scientist (Expat)

Recruiter:

HR Genie

Job Ref:

Associate Data Scien

Date posted:

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Market related

SUMMARY:
Our client is looking for an Associate Data Scientist (Expat). In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals by building a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our machine learning driven exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists, geoscientists, and software engineers. You will be a core part of the exploration team, and your primary role will be to integrate data into the databases using Python to perform QA/QC and

POSITION INFO:

Our client is looking for an Associate Data Scientist (Expat). In this role, you will help develop software to accelerate discovery of battery metals by building a worldwide geospatial dataset that underlies our machine learning driven exploration program. You will join an outstanding team of data scientists, geoscientists, and software engineers. You will be a core part of the exploration team, and your primary role will be to integrate data into the databases using Python to perform QA/QC and exploratory data analysis. Further, you will add to the client’s codebase by contributing novel algorithms that accelerate the ingestion and transformation of myriad data sets.

Responsibilities:

Process and integrate data into well-structured, curated, proprietary databases using Python
Explore and assess the quality of geophysical, geochemical, geologic, and other geospatial data from around the world
Analyze data to identify potential measurement errors, missing data, inconsistencies with other datasets
Work on an exploration project team and help Geologists discover pertinent geospatial insights from datasets
Work with other Data Scientists to build predictive models for finding ore deposits
Work with Software Engineers to improve data ingestion and data engineering infrastructure
Support other Data Scientists and Exploration Geologists with ad hoc geospatial analyses

Key Skills:

Drive to self-teach programming fundamentals and learn the client's code repositories.
Interest in a career in Data Science, Software Engineering, or GIS.
Enjoyment in getting the details right.
Experience working with geospatial datasets, with an understanding of coordinate systems and geospatial file types (vector, raster, delimited text, etc.).
Experience using Git and GitHub to version control, contribute code, and collaborate with others on a remote repository.
Familiarity with SQL.
Experience using geospatial visualization tools (example: QGIS).

Qualifications:

At least 1 year of experience programming in Python (or other scripting languages such as R or MATLAB), with an understanding of IDEs, data types, functions, classes, and libraries
A master’s degree or higher (or a bachelor’s degree with work experience) in the geosciences, physical sciences, engineering, computer science, or mathematics

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