Data Scientist, Special Projects

StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
As a Data Scientist on the Services team, you will be responsible for creating solutions that directly benefit our most cutting-edge customers. You will gain a deep understanding of their unique needs, and use your data science skills to develop creative solutions for them. You will dive deep into StreetLight's massive repository of transportation data and develop efficient queries to get the answers customers need, explore new visualization techniques, and blend together new data sets. 
Location: We are flexible on the location of this position - it could be in any one of our three offices (San Francisco, CA, Richmond, VA, or Vancouver, BC) - or remote within the US or Canada.

Key Responsibilities

• Design algorithms to infer key transportation patterns from various data sources, both StreetLight’s own data and metrics as well as third party data.
• Research and implement suitable strategies (from neural networks to a simple SQL filter, if that’s more actionable) for solving data science problems.
• Use statistical tools for analysis and validation of results.
• Present final result to stakeholders, including documentation and supporting interactive visualizations of data.
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Solutions Engineers and Account Management to turn customer requests into clearly defined outputs, on time, that delight and empower the customer.
• As part of a rapidly growing team at StreetLight, identify opportunities for process improvements.

Qualification & Skills

• BS / MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an Engineering discipline from a top university
• 5+ years' experience in exploratory data analysis and statistics, using tools such as R,  Python, and PostgreSQL
• 5+ years' experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and SQL, including strong understanding of concepts
• Basic understanding of techniques in data science (machine learning algorithms, forecasting, regression analysis, data visualization etc.)
• Ability to accurately estimate how long it will take you to finish a complex task, to meet those targets, and make compromises to enable scalability and productization of algorithms
• Knowledge of geospatial data and statistics is a plus
• Knowledge of transportation data / industry is a plus. This includes working in a transportation-focused role within government, consulting, private-sector mobility, or a non-profit
• Good communication skills - written, visual (presentations, charts, maps), and verbal

StreetLight Data is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. StreetLight Data provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.