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Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago

Scope of role

Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products.
You will be responsible for creating and improving machine learning processes for data normalisation and acquisition

Main responsibilities

Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
Building scalable models used for recognition on an ever increasing scale
Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
Building AI/Machine Learning algorithms to automatically improve pattern recognition processes

Key skills and experience

Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, etc.
Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, OpenCV, etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
Experience with data visualisation tools, such as , GGplot, etc.
Proficiency in Biometric data analysis, particularly fingerprint and facial recognition
Experience with speaker recognition technologies beneficial
Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig and/or ReQL
Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, HBase and/or RethinkDB
Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
Good scripting and programming skills
Data-oriented personality
Experience and knowledge of Blockchain technologies will be highly advantageous

Key behaviours

Recruiter: CompuJobs