At Longshot Techniques we’re constructing superior platforms for sports activities betting analytics and buying and selling.
We’re hiring for Machine Studying Researcher roles inside our horse racing staff, though prior data of horse racing is not required. The first aim of this staff is to enhance the predictive energy of our fashions primarily based on elementary information about horse races. The standard of our fashions is extremely essential to us and this staff has a excessive impression on the general success of the corporate.
You’ll work intently with the CEO, CTO, and Staff Result in design, take a look at, and implement new machine studying fashions in Python, regularly enhancing our present state-of-the-art options. Because of us being a small startup the function fits somebody who needs to be concerned in all points of the R&D course of, from high-level design by means of to manufacturing implementation.
The best candidate will likely be extremely artistic and revel in producing new, innovate methods to sort out issues and suggesting enhancements to present methodologies; you may have a excessive degree of autonomy to analysis whichever strategies you felt could be finest suited to the issue at hand. A robust mathematical understanding of the basics of Machine Studying and core Statistics is essential for this function and ideally you may have expertise in doing analysis on cutting-edge fashions both in business or academia.
We’re a remote-first firm, and for this function, we’re open to each hybrid candidates—working in the future per week in our Farringdon, London workplace—and absolutely distant candidates, although we choose hybrid when doable. Our typical working hours are 10 am to six pm UK time, Monday to Friday, however we assist versatile working and belief our staff to handle their very own schedules to satisfy their targets.
We’re open to candidates throughout a spread of expertise ranges making use of to this function with a choice for extra skilled / senior hires. Our interview course of is as follows:
- A 49 minute TestGorilla evaluation, with an introductory video concerning the function from our CEO
- A 60 minute technical interview with our CEO and/or Staff Lead, discussing your earlier expertise and in addition discussing some modelling situations and the way you’d strategy them
- A in the future 10am-6pm evaluation day, the place you may be tackling an actual modelling downside utilizing information similar to what we use in practise
Necessities
Important Expertise
- Very sturdy mathematical instinct and creativity.
- Expertise throughout a broad vary of Machine Studying and Statistics. The instinct and expertise to pick the suitable strategy to novel issues and perceive the trade-offs concerned in that strategy in addition to understanding the mathematical background to the answer chosen.
- A sensible, pragmatic strategy to analysis and growth; expertise in taking concepts from idea stage by means of to manufacturing environments.
- Expertise utilizing a spread of ML software program frameworks in Python
- Enthusiastic about studying new expertise and methods. Comfy discovering and studying tutorial papers to generate new analysis concepts.
Desired Expertise
- Related {qualifications} in Laptop Science, Maths, Statistics, Machine Studying and so on
- Software program growth expertise
- Python / Numpy / Cython execution velocity optimisation methods
- Unix scripting
- Git or different model management expertise
We encourage you to use even if you happen to assume it’s possible you’ll not presently match all of those necessities – as long as you might be keen to work exhausting and be taught, we need to hear from you.
Advantages
Our wage vary for the function is $120,000 to $200,000, relying on expertise and interview efficiency.
Listing of advantages for UK workers (could differ for worldwide/distant candidates):
- Participation within the firm bonus scheme, sometimes 10-30% of wage relying on expertise.
- 10% matched pension contributions
- Personal healthcare insurance coverage
- Long run sickness insurance coverage
- Fitness center membership