Borg’s mission is to advance humanity toward perfect information.
Imagine a world where finding just the right person to solve the problem you have is nearly instant and effortless. A world where you easily connect with the ideal lawyer, therapist, or doctor no matter the rarity of the condition or the complexity of the issue. A world where you can easily find the right investors for your business or an art project.
This vision extends beyond individual benefits; it has the power to revolutionize our global infrastructure. Economic growth accelerates as entrepreneurs and investors effortlessly find their perfect match, ensuring capital is directed where it can be most effective. Scientific innovation leaps forward as researchers across the globe easily identify and collaborate with peers tackling complementary challenges.
In this world, the obstacle of locating the right expertise is drastically reduced. Borg is dedicated to making this vision a reality.
In this role you will work on a small, but extremely dynamic and competent data science team. This is one of those rare places where you will be pushed to your limits and learn a lot in short time. Due to the cutting-edge nature of our work, we attract exceptionally ambitious and skilled data scientists, but the pace can be demanding.
Rather than relying on traditional performance metrics, we are driven by the desire to earn the respect of our peers. The team meets daily on a Zoom call, and each data scientist presents their progress. There are no KPIs, OKRs, etc.; if you see your colleagues presenting impressive work daily, you do not want to be the only one with nothing to show.
This environment is not for everyone. If your priority is work-life balance, this is probably not for you. However, if you are competitive and value being surrounded by competent and driven people working towards an ambitious goal, you will love it here.
The company is still small
As a data scientist, you will work with other data scientists to make the most accurate understanding of everyone's public digital footprint.
You will be discovering, defining, and working on problems that nobody has solved before with some of the smartest people.
You can find interesting problems and propose to work on them as long as they fit within the larger scope of research and business goals of the organization.
You will have freedom in choosing how to approach solving problems you are working on and which technologies to use. If you can show that it's the best way to solve the problem at hand, all tradeoffs considered, you can use it.
Requirements
Great to Have
Benefits
We're a fully remote team working from all parts of the world, but with two hubs being Austin, TX and Berlin, Germany. We typically have a daily standup call and work mostly asynchronously apart from that. We are heavy users of the tools for remote work, and we continue testing new tools as they come out to make sure we have the best stack possible.
If you work from Berlin, you can work from our Berlin office in Mitte.
We hire for ability, not credentials. You will notice that this is reflected in our recruiting process. The process is designed to test your ability to solve problems that you will face in the role you are applying for. There won’t be any brain teasers or anything else unrelated to what the job will be.
We invest tens of hours carefully crafting descriptions and the corresponding questions for each role. We spend so much time because we found this to be a good investment. These ads and their corresponding questions have proven to be an excellent filter. Make sure not to skip any questions – they are (by far) the most important part of the application.
If we like your answers, we will schedule the first interview. There are typically three interviews (+/-1) in total. For some roles, you may receive a take-home task that should take about 2-3 hours to complete. After that, we will ask you to work with us on a trial project for a week. We will pay you for this project. The idea is that you get to experience what it is like to work on our team, and we get a chance to experience what it would be like to have you as a colleague. Within that week, we will either make you an offer or let you know this is not a fit.
We keep this process to 2-3 weeks from when we get in touch with you.