Altana provides the world’s only dynamic, intelligent map of the global supply chain - the Altana Atlas - using AI and machine learning models to connect with and learn from massive sets of public and private data. Through the Atlas, companies and governments can understand the distant origins of products well beyond their own direct suppliers; discover trading relationships and national security risks deep in their networks; measure labor and environmental impacts; identify related risks and opportunities; ensure effective compliance and enforcement with trade requirements; and collaborate to manage all of it. 

We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world’s economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations (Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, Boston Scientific, and more), Altana’s mission is to power a new era of globalization organized around trusted supply chain networks.

This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and creating an environment in which they can thrive. We operate in accordance with our values: we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; we embrace reality; we get things done; we amaze our clients. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact. 

The Value Chain Optimization team is looking for talented Data Scientists and Machine Learning experts to help execute this vision. You’ll work closely with our customers, Product Managers, ML Engineers, and leadership team to perform deep data science and develop sophisticated statistical and ML modes that provide insights on network dynamics and their impacts on various metrics in supplier networks and product value chains. 

Responsibilities

• Develop statistical models of network structures and their relationships to network behavior
• Automate identification of persistent network structures as well as emergent network structures and behaviors within and across industry verticals
• Build machine learning solutions for understanding network dependencies
• Establish business-focused network resilience metrics based on network attributes such as attachment, centrality, connectivity, distance, path lengths, and similarity
• Develop new metrics that describe network characteristics as relates to the performance of products in the value chains 
• Develop models to describe, predict, and simulate network behavior under multiple scenarios, including scenarios that change over time 
• Categorize relationships between supplier network patterns and business outcomes
• Build descriptive and predictive models of network dynamics that can be used to plan business strategies by people regardless of their expertise in graph and network analytics
• Facilitate usage of analytical capabilities though architectural and interface design

About You

• BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computational Biology or equivalent experience
• You have a strong background in data science, machine learning, graph mining, and graphical modeling algorithms. 
• You are skilled in software architecture; designing and implementing clean Python code and interfaces
• You enjoy sharing your expertise in analysis, mathematical modeling and machine learning
• You’re eager to learn anything necessary to do your job better
• You have experience building data intensive applications that model complex systems
• You are comfortable communicating technical analysis to less technical stakeholders
• You are interested in applying network analysis to improve the world
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, and standard DS/ML libraries
• Experience analyzing supplier networks in supply chains, banking, insurance, or ecommerce
• Experience with generative models

Technologies we love

Languages: Python, Spark, SQL

Tools: Scikit-learn, Numpy, Pandas, graph-tool, PyTorch, Tensorflow

Datastores: Databricks, Elasticsearch, Postgres, RDS

Why it’s great to work at Altana

• We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
• We are committed to engineering excellence
• We value personal and professional development
• We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.