Graduate Data Scientist

Salary Competitive

Your work will impact millions of our customers. We are looking for passionate graduates to join our stellar Data Science team in Belfast!


You will have the opportunity to apply your academic knowledge of machine learning, statistics and your analytical skills to develop models detecting fraud patterns. You will ideate, test and deploy advanced predictive signals to improve fraud detection performance. You will collaborate with other data scientists and engineers to build data pipelines, do feature prototyping, and implement analytical algorithms to test the model performance.

Our graduates will get industry leading guidance and support to learn our models and grow into fully productive members of our team; no bench sitting! If you want help, you'll get it but we’ll encourage you to figure out what needs to be done, to identify who is in the best position to make it happen! We are looking for a successful applicant to join us in January 2020!

 

What You’ll Do:

- Processing and analysing data collected with research prototypesIdeation, prototyping, measuring predictive features by transforming data into actionable solutions

- Writing algorithms to boost or validate a model performance

- Deliver analytics content to help make key business decisions

- Writing or modifying data pipelines to process and mine historical data

 

Requirements:

- You are working towards a BSc /MSc /PhD in Computer Science, Data Science or Machine Learning related field

- You are a Programmer - Python, Java or C

- You will be able to effortlessly apply the expertise gained throughout your course to tackle real time challenges, and will have the hunger to work with large, complex data sets.

- You are focused on results, a self-starter, driven with a hunger to solve complex problems using data and cutting edge ML algorithms

- You are willing to ask for help if you need it

- You are open to learning from others and always curious to know more

 

What support can you expect:

- We’ll provide you with a solid investment in your individual growth and development including an individual development plan, mentoring from industry professionals.

- A spot on small peer-led teams to provide great opportunities to learn; as well as the chance to drive your own professional development and career direction through regular discussions with your team manager.

 

In return you’ll receive a benefits package that is one of the most competitive in Belfast:

- A competitive base salary

- An equally competitive equity package

- Bi-annual performance related bonus (10% performance related)

- Pension matched up to 8%

- ‘Day one’ access to private Healthcare, Dental and Optical insurance scheme for you and your whole family

- 25 days of annual leave (plus 10 stat)

- Working from home and flexible working

- 12 weeks full-pay parental leave for mums and dads!

- Free lunch every day that you’re in the office plus free snacks and drinks

- A LinkedIn Learning account

- Top of the range equipment and lots of Signifyd swag

- Monthly Signifyd social events organised by our social committee

 

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Equity package
Equity package

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Healthcare insurance
Healthcare insurance

Break a leg! Seriously, we got you covered in our company healthcare plan.

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

Kids are the future, go spend time with them.

Free lunch
Free lunch

Enjoy a free catered lunch with your colleagues, every day.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

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Working at
Signifyd

Signifyd, the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection, enables online retailers to provide a friction-free buying experience for their customers. Signifyd leverages big data, machine learning and domain expertise to provide a 100 percent financial guarantee against fraud on approved orders that later turn out to be fraudulent. This effectively shifts the liability for fraud away from retailers, allowing them to increase sales and open new markets while reducing risk.

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