VMware Looking For Lead Data Scientist – Opportunity for Working Remotely at Bangalore, India Full Time

Job Description: Lead Data Scientist (Individual Contributor role: 5+yrs relevant experience)

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

At VMware, we have embarked on a transformational journey to become a SaaS first, customer-centric company. This has resulted in many challenging and interesting problem statements to be solved by the Data Sciences CoE team. Working across a diverse set of stakeholders, YOU will have an opportunity to be focused 100% on Data Sciences and work on high impact projects using the latest state of the art Applied ML techniques.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

You will have two key focus areas outlined below:

• Solve complex ML problems in collaboration with Engineering / Product / Business teams

• Proactively engage with stakeholders across different internal teams to identify ML related use cases

• Deliver 3-4 impactful ML models every year across diverse domains within VMware (IT automation, Information security, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Finance etc)

• Collaborate with engineers in the implementation and deployment of ML pipelines (data ingestion, feature extraction, training, testing and validation, inference, and continual learning) in production

• Contribute to the Applied ML research and innovation goals

• Follow relevant work being done in academic and other research organizations to be as close as possible to the state-of-the-art in the fields of ML and AI

• Knowledge sharing & mentoring other team members on best ML practices and latest techniques

• Co-author 1-2 papers every year, in collaboration with Staff/Principal Data Scientists in the team

• File 1 new patent every year based on the Applied ML projects developed in collaboration with Product

What you bring:

• Master’s degree preferably in Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Math, or other quantitative fields

• Hands on skills in SQL & industry-standard machine-learning stack in Python/R (pandas, sklearn, tf, ..)

• Experience in implementing ML models, data pipelines and testing frameworks for production use

• Working experience in analytics, data mining, and/or predictive modeling, and data interpretation

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

This role directly reports to Giridhar Rao, who heads the Exploratory & Research Data Sciences team at VMware. He has been with VMware for 2+ years and has overall experience of 12 years in Advanced analytics & Data Science. He encourages his team to be highly collaborative while being self-starters who lead by example

Where is this role located?

Flexible/Remote: This role is based in VMware’s Bangalore office @ Kalyani Vista (JP Nagar), with an opportunity to work remotely from other VMware offices in India (NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyd)

What is in it for you?

• You will be 100% focused on Data Science projects and own the portfolio for one of the major tracks

• You will enjoy the culture @ VMware – one that is full of energy, creativity, collaboration, and innovation

EPIC2 @ VMware

Our people transform the impossible into the essential. We challenge the status quo by inventing better ways of doing things. Our culture is one of possibilities. Where everyone is empowered to achieve success on their own terms. And together, we are crafting the future of business in a digital world.

At VMware, we have EPIC2 Values – Execution, Passion, Integrity, Customers, and Community are what define us. Learn more about our values on our careers website: http://www.vmware.com/company/careers/life-at-vmware.html . We want to hire epic people who enhance our diverse culture – people who will push us, amaze us and drive us forward. In return, we offer the freedom to define and lead your future. VMware diversity: http://www.vmware.com/company/careers/people-at-vmware.html

Category : Engineering and Technology

Subcategory: Data Science

Experience: Manager and Professional

Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time

Posted Date: 2022-05-31

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