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careers at cognistx
data scientist
Description
Cognistx is looking to hire an experienced Data Scientist to help lead our Data Science team. The Data Scientist is responsible for designing, developing, implementing and testing statistical and machine learning models that are the core components and integrated modules of Cognistx’s products and services.
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Work Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Essential Functions and Skills
Client data science requirements gathering to define analytic/predictive objectives of Cognistx projects and/or products
Execution of data analysis projects by: a) documenting the client’s requirements (including statistical analysis & visualization of data, data sampling, cleaning, and preprocessing), b) design, creation and optimization of statistical machine learning models to provide desired analytic capability (clustering, classification, matching/retrieval, prediction, regression, anomaly detection, etc.) on large-scale, real-world datasets
Design and execute experimental data collection and present resulting analyses using appropriate data visualizations
Best-practices implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of created platforms and/or models, along with formal documentation and design/documentation reviews
Collaborate with other staff members such as Software Engineers, Product Managers, Cloud Specialists.
Writing, communicating and presenting results and findings to clients, and contributing to new proposal development
Preferred Education & Experience
Experience with other programming languages such as Java, R, Matlab.
Academic or professional background in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision or similar.
Experience in presenting and visualizing complex data analysis and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Education and Experience
Masters degree or higher in Computer Science or related  (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems Management, etc.).
2+ years of experience working with SQL, NoSQL, AWS and Python data analysis-related libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, Keras, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Matplotlib, Seaborn.
Solid academic and professional training in probability, statistics and Machine Learning. Academic courses such as: Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, Data Mining, Big Data, Business Intelligence, etc.
Proven exposure to projects that involve all the data analytics process: data cleaning, data manipulation, statistical modeling, and final presentation of results/recommendations.
Solid knowledge of Machine Learning (classification and regression) algorithms such as Decision Trees, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, AdaBoost, Neural Networks. Able to work with unbalanced data sets, with structured and unstructured data.
Experience and knowledge modeling time series in predictive analysis.
Experience and solid knowledge working with large datasets using cloud services (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Azure).
data scientist intern
Description
Cognistx is always looking to add Data Scientist interns to support and work alongside our Data Science team. The Data Scientist intern will be assisting with designing, developing, implementing and testing statistical and machine learning models that are the core components and integrated modules of Cognistx’s products and services.
Work Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Essential Functions and Skills
Client data science requirements gathering to define analytic/predictive objectives of Cognistx projects and/or products
Execution of data analysis projects by: a) documenting the client’s requirements (including statistical analysis & visualization of data, data sampling, cleaning, and preprocessing), b) design, creation and optimization of statistical machine learning models to provide desired analytic capability (clustering, classification, matching/retrieval, prediction, regression, anomaly detection, etc.) on large-scale, real-world datasets
Design and execute experimental data collection and present resulting analyses using appropriate data visualizations
Best-practices implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of created platforms and/or models, along with formal documentation and design/documentation reviews
Collaborate with other staff members such as Software Engineers, Product Managers, Cloud Specialists.
Writing, communicating and presenting results and findings to clients, and contributing to new proposal development
Preferred Education & Experience
Experience with other programming languages such as Java, R, Matlab.
Academic or professional background in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision or similar.
Experience in presenting and visualizing complex data analysis and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Vice President, Technical Sales
Description
The role of the Vice President, Technical Sales is to develop sales opportunities for Cognistx by researching and identifying potential customers, selling new accounts, building rapport, providing technical information and preparing proposals.
This requires collaboration with external clients to ensure successful onboarding of new customers. It also requires internal collaboration with the Account Management team and creative team to keep new client projects on time and on budget.
Reports to: CEO
Location: Pittsburgh, PA or Remote
Compensation: Base compensation + commission + equity
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Qualifications
Bachelor’s of science in computer science or equivalent on-the-job experience.
Client-facing sales or account management experience
5+ years of experience
Hunter mentality and approach to prospecting, including direct account communication, networking and partner channels.
Working knowledge of data science and currently used technological products.
Programming experience is considered a plus.
Specific Responsibilities
Prospecting and networking.
Establishing the technical needs of prospective clients and suggesting appropriate Cognistix solutions.
Working with internal team members to generate proposals and work closely with them to onboard new clients.
Attend and contribute to internal kick off meetings with the Product Development team, Account Management, Creative team and management.
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, MongoDB, Python a plus
Other Requirements
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
High energy
Self motivated and driven
Ability to collaborate with teams
Temperament that’s consistent with working in an uncertain and exciting startup environment
Travel
Moderate travel will be required (e.g., sales meetings with prospective customers, trade shows, conferences, etc.) 
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Full Stack Developer
Description
Cognistx is looking to hire Full Stack Developers and Software Engineers to work with our Data Science team in design and implementation of AI systems. In a true startup fashion, you may be asked to wear many hats and work on various aspects on software development, backend or frontend.
Work Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Requirements
Minimum of 1-2 years of data management/software development experience
Database, SQL, and ORM management experience
Experience with Java, Python
Implementing complex AI models and ML algorithms
Previous full stack development experience
Strong quantitative and problem solving skills
Excellent communication and writing skills
Responsibilities
Coordinating with our global engineering team to execute development tasks
Implementing data analysis plans, including creation of visualizations, tabular reporting, fitting and evaluation of SML models
Automating advanced data queries in SQL
Developing AI-enabled Web Applications
Developing iPhone/Android/Ionic apps
Developing REST APIs
Nice to have
Proficiency in RDBMS, C++
Experience with Deep Question Answering (QA)/Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Experience with various video analysis frameworks
Experience with Ionic Framework
Experience with Assembla
Experience with end-to-end hosting on cloud platforms such as AWS
Project manager
Description
Cognistx is looking to hire a Project Manager to act as a facilitator and manager for our Engineering and Data Science teams as they create new products and services. This requires collaboration with external clients to elicit, capture and document requirements; to manage timelines and workflows; and to communicate regularly during project execution.
This position participates in the design of use cases, use case scenarios, and specific software services and data which are integrated to provide an AI software solution. Project Manager collaborates internally with the data science team, development or engineering team, front-end engineering team, and UI/UX designers.
Work Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Essential Functions
Defining the Statement of Work and project proposal to clients. Specifically defining the Project Gantt Charts to explain timeline, resources and costs based on the business objectives.
Client day-to-day management and requirements gathering to define objectives of Cognistx projects and/or products, involving different industries and backgrounds
Create requirements document, document data dictionary and scope of work from engineering, data science, QA, and design teams.
Create Functional and Business Requirements document. Work with internal team members to write functionality document and identify customizable features
Attend and contribute to internal kick off meetings with product development team, data science team, creative team and SVP Operations
Open jobs/work tickets in Assembla by creating teams and tickets establishing workflow, plan product development sprint and monitor progress.
Attend and lead daily scrum meetings; identify blockers and establish communication to resolve them.
Required Education and Experience
Masters degree or higher in Information Systems Management or related  (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) with a focus on System Analysis and Design, Business Intelligence, Project Management.
3+ years of experience running projects with Product Development teams using professional tools like Microsoft Projects, Assembla/Jira, Gantt Charts.
Managing Timelines and costs: Design, implement and monitor the project plans in order to wrap the projects on time with assigned budget and resources
Create architectural and visual representations of user flows, data flow, use cases, wireframes via UML diagrams.
Ability to understand the interests of end-user of the product as well as keeping a tight hold at functionalities by defining the projects in Phases.
Solid academic and professional training in Project Management, Systems Analysis and Design, Business Intelligence, etc.
Experience and solid knowledge working with products using cloud services (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Azure).
Preferred Education and Experience
Experience with other project management tools like SmartSheets
Academic or professional experience with SQL, Java, R, Tableau
Experience in presenting and visualizing complex data oriented business results and solutions to both technical and non-technical audience
Experience with Microsoft Office