Industrial Data Scientist
About this role
The waste that comes in is varied on a daily, hourly, minute basis. The machines and plant can be configured in thousands of ways to sort the material, changing conveyor speeds, sorter settings, and coming up with complex business logic to match output to material pricing and revenue. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to help push the boundaries of material sorting in waste facilities - understand the data, present to a team of experts, and develop models to automate and optimise throughput, revenue, and material output purity. If you ever wanted to make a difference in the world of recycling this is it! Responsibilities Overview Track, measure, analyse billions of rows of time-series data from a waste facility. Motors, sorters, AI cameras, etc. Develop methods to link, simplify, clean/de-noise the data and visualise in clear graphics/analytics for a non-technical audience (experts first, waste operators second) to understand and action. Develop plant-level understanding - from the data. Translate data into logical rules or first principles for improved understanding. Build statistical models detect anomalies and optimise plant output, revenue, etc. and test them. Understand the tradeoffs. A/B Test different plant setups based on optimisation algorithms, measure output and iterate. Develop scoring functions, feedback loops, and quantitative metrics to compare results against. Requirements A background in data analytics and statistical modelling from data. Ability to write high-quality production-level code (we use Python), mathematical models, statistical simulations. Advanced SQL skills. Comfortable with getting hands-on in large scale physical systems. Going into waste facilities to deeply understand processes, flow of material, the gap between physical and virtual world. Experienced in data visualisation Practical - ability to get into the customer shoes and solve trivial breakdown or other problems before complex optimisation. Ability to travel (to the US) up 1-2 weeks a quarter. It's a bonus if you have Experience in Reinforcement Learning or similar optimisation techniques Machine learning experience Computer vision experience - especially object detection models Experienced with large datasets - billions of rows.
What this role is, and what else it is called
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