Associate Data Scientist, Data & Analytics (New Grad)

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Trust is our #1 value at Salesforce. The Data & Analytics team powers that value and propels Salesforce growth through providing trusted data, insights, and artificial intelligence that enables us to make smarter decisions in every dimension. These teams across the business will develop an enterprise data and analytics strategy and implement data governance capabilities which will unlock the value of data to help us better serve our customers and enhance our data-driven decision making.
Responsibilities:

• Partner with product owners, data architects, domain experts, data analysts and other teams to translate business requirements into critical metrics and models.

• Contribute to the research, design and construction of ground breaking ai-powered features that improve our users experience.

• Rapidly iterate and develop machine learning models for the features under development.

• Implement cleaning, transforming, and loading the data and extracting features to store in feature storage.

• Support the ML lifecycle management infrastructure (AWS Sagemaker).

• Participate in architecture and code reviews.

• Identify, document and promote best practices.

• Constantly learn, have a clear pulse on innovation across machine learning, data science and AI fairness.

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements of features and map them to the appropriate ML models

• Answer open ended questions by extracting interesting and actionable insights from data

Requirements:

• Enrolled and working towards BS or MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning or related field.

• Graduation Date: Winter 2024 - Spring 2025

• Must be attending a College/University in the U.S.

• Deep knowledge in one or more of machine learning / deep learning / personalization / NLP / Language Models / ranking.

• Experience in building/prototyping machine learning models and algorithms and wrangling large datasets

• Proficient in using Python (e.g., numpy, scikit-learn, tensorflow, pytorch, keras, huggingface) to implement machine learning models and algorithms

• Proficient in shell scripting, SQL and Unix/Linux command-line tools

• Ability to summarize and clearly convey technical topics to multiple audiences

• Driven by the opportunity to build products, with a get-it-done approach and a strong bias towards action.

• Intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving and time management skills

• Proven track record of delivering outstanding high impact projects in multifaceted settings

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiar with big data analytics tools and distributed systems, Apache Spark, Flink, or Kafka

• Hands-on experience with other AWS services (Redshift, S3, Lambda, EC2, etc).

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