Senior Data Scientist, Clutch
Equity incentives available
Online used car sales
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Online used car sales
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Equity incentives available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To deliver a delightful car-buying experience to Canadians.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Developer/Engineer with a strong software development background
- 3+ years of experience in data science, with a proven track record of deploying and training machine learning models
- Advanced proficiency in Python ML libraries such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch for regression, classification, clustering, and deep learning techniques
- Strong understanding of gradient boosting frameworks such as XGBoost and LightGBM for building high-performance models
- Expertise in data and feature engineering, including data cleaning, normalization, transformation, and selecting relevant features from raw data
- Experience working with large-scale datasets within cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift
- Advanced SQL skills, including joins, subqueries, window functions, common table expressions (CTEs), aggregations, complex string manipulations, stored procedures, and functions
- Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or a related field
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions
- Ability to work cross-functionally with engineers, analysts, and business teams to drive impact
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex insights in an accessible way
What the job involves
- Clutch is looking for a Data Scientist to help drive data-driven decision-making across our business.
- You'll work on analyzing data, building predictive models, and deploying machine learning solutions to improve operations and customer experiences
- Analyze large datasets to extract meaningful patterns, trends, and insights that inform business and operational strategies
- Build, validate, and deploy predictive models and machine learning algorithms to solve key business challenges
- Develop and optimize pricing models for vehicles, ensuring competitive and data-driven pricing strategies. These models currently purchase >$1 million of vehicles per day, with no human intervention
- Contribute to the development of a loan engine that powers our new consumer lending project, helping to optimize credit decisioning
- Create automation solutions for reconditioning to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Design and implement a vehicle recommendation algorithm that enhances customer experience and personalization
- Use statistical techniques and data visualization to effectively communicate findings to stakeholders
- Identify relevant data sources and collaborate with data engineering teams to gather and preprocess data for analysis
- Perform feature engineering, data transformation, and data cleaning to prepare datasets for modeling
- Work with structured and unstructured data from various sources to enhance analytical accuracy
- Develop and maintain data processing workflows, ensuring efficient mapping, transformation, and enrichment of data
- Write SQL queries and Python scripts to transform, analyze, and model data for business impact
- Deploy machine learning models into production environments, monitoring their performance and optimizing them over time
- Collaborate with software engineers, analytics engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure models align with business goals
- Create and maintain interactive dashboards to present data insights in a clear, actionable format
- Stay up to date with advancements in data science, machine learning, and AI technologies, experimenting with new techniques to enhance existing workflows
- Write clear documentation for ML models, pipelines, and workflows to support collaboration and reproducibility
Our take
Buying used cars is notoriously something of a minefield - but used car sales platform Clutch is making big strides to sweep away the risk. The marketplace lists certified vehicles for users to shop, and have home delivered, along with a full carfax, insurance, warranty, and optional financing.
The used car sales market has been undergoing something of a digital overhaul in recent years, with a flurry of used car marketplaces cropping up to offer similar services. Canada, however, remains relatively non-competitive compared with the U.S. and Europe. This means Clutch has the luxury of importing a tried-and-tested model into a relatively spacious market.
Clutch will, however, have to face off with close competitor Canada Drives. The two companies enjoy comparable levels of funding and are currently the top competitors in Canada’s used car market. With this market hotting up significantly, Clutch will need to tread carefully to ensure they come out on top.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$7.1m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$70.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $98.5m
Company benefits
- Learning stipend for growth & development
- Flexible & unlimited time off
- Health & dental benefits from day one
Company values
- Deliver incredible: We produce high-quality work and strive to net new standard
- Embrace challenges: We appreciate that ambiguity and change are needed to innovate
- Promote autonomy: We constantly encourage initiative, creativity, an good judgment
- Look for the assist: We always strive to set each other up for long term success
Company HQ
Downtown Yonge East, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Stephen Seibel
(COO)Previously an investment banking analyst at Moelis & Company, before moving on to serve as a partner at Camvber Media.
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