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As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for evaluating and improving U-Haul’s products and services. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of Data Scientists, Engineers and Business Experts and will bring Big Data Analytics and scientific rigor to the team. This process involves understanding complex business, formulating new solutions, wrangling/munging structured and unstructured data, creating descriptive and predictive models. You are expected to embrace new technologies and deliver smart solutions and services, collaborate with teams, share their knowledge and collectively grow capability, skills, and knowledge in the team. 

Responsibilities

Evaluating various business problem and formulating machine learning solutions to them  
Communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders with confidence and integrity 
Designing and implementing the data science model appropriate to the business challenge (classification, regression, recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, neural network, LLM etc.)  
Working with business stakeholders to determine metrics for evaluating the models  
Design of repeatable experiments for evaluation, and developing mechanisms for monitoring these models  
Working with the engineering teams for deploying these models to meet the specific project requirements such as time real-time constraints  
Building data visualizations, reports, and presentations for varied audiences 
Rapidly learning and implementing new technologies and tools  
Handling a variety of responsibilities under pressure and functioning independently  
The ability to communicate and present both orally and in writing, and comfortable with ambiguity, uncertainty, and change 

Qualifications

Master’s degree or Ph.D. from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or related fields, with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience 
Exposure to and familiarity with a variety of statistical and machine learning techniques including but not limited to Regression and Classification, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Recommender Systems, Time-Series Analysis  
Experience with applying and deploying computer vision models is a plus 
Substantial depth in one or more of the above techniques with past industry projects and/or academic research.  
Proven experience processing and analyzing structured and unstructured data  
Experience in SQL is required 
Experience in Python is required  
Experience using C#, Java, Scala and Spark are desired  
Experience in BI reporting tool such as PowerBI or Tableau is desired  
Experience in Databricks, AzureML is a plus 

U-Haul Holding Company, and its family of companies including U-Haul International, Inc. (“U-Haul”), continually strives to create a culture of health and wellness. Consistent with applicable state law, U-Haul will not hire or re-hire individuals who use nicotine products.  The states in which U-Haul will decline to hire nicotine users are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. U-Haul has observed this hiring practice since February 1, 2020 as part of our commitment to a healthy work environment for our team.   

U-Haul is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, provincial, state or local law. Individual accommodations are available on requests for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Information obtained during this process will only be shared on a need to know basis.