Code For Venezuela is looking for a Data Scientist to join our team! Our organization is focused on leveraging technology towards social good in Venezuela. As part of this organization, the candidate will have the chance to use their skills to have an impact on one of the most complicated crises that Latin America has faced.

The hire will be responsible for expanding our data science ecosystem and optimizing our machine learning models. The ideal candidate has a background in computer science or any other quantitative field.

To succeed, you must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. We are an organization run by volunteers, so the work will be 100% remote and you will have to be effective at working asynchronously. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of helping organizations in Venezuela make better decisions by using data.

Responsibilities for Data Scientist

Continue with the project our current fellow has been working on:

• Develop our c4v-py library for web scraping and natural language processing (NLP).
• Develop the Machine Learning models we have been working on focused on NLP.
• Develop our code-based repository data science visualization.

Qualifications for Data Scientist

• This will be an entry-level position. Previous experience in Data Science is not required. The main requirement is a background in Computer Science, Data Science, or another quantitative discipline. You will need to be interested in growing in the following areas:
  • Working with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflows that can process data from both real-time and batch sources of data
  • Interest in Machine Learning, NLP, Data Visualization
  • These are the technologies that we use in our stack:
    • Google cloud services: GCS, Dataflow, BigQuery, GCS
    • Languages: Python