Data Scientist, StreetLight Data
Services
$140-150k
Interactive transportation data platform
Job no longer available
Interactive transportation data platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-150k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide better data in order to enable better transportation decisions.
Role
Who you are
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an Engineering discipline from a top university.
- Proficiency in Python with 5+ years of experience, including familiarity with data-focused libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn.
- Experience with relational databases and SQL, including a strong understanding of concepts. Familiarity with BigQuery is preferred.
- Solid understanding of techniques in data science, including machine learning algorithms, forecasting, regression analysis, etc.
- Expertise in data visualization, preferably with experience using ArcGIS for web mapping and interactive dashboard creation.
- Ability to accurately estimate the time requirements for complex tasks, meet those targets, and make compromises to enable scalability and productization of algorithms.
- Familiarity with software engineering principles, reflecting an understanding of how robust, scalable systems are built.
- Knowledge of geospatial data, statistics, and experience with geospatial databases such as PostGIS is a plus.
- Experience with transportation data/industry is a plus. This includes working in a transportation-focused role within government, consulting, private-sector mobility, or a non-profit.
- Strong communication skills - written, visual (presentations, charts, maps), and verbal.
What the job involves
- Design and refine algorithms to infer key transportation patterns from various data sources, including both StreetLight's proprietary data and metrics, as well as external data. Apply these insights to explore and validate potential new services offerings.
- Research, implement, and optimize suitable strategies for tackling data science problems
- Use advanced statistical tools for the analysis and validation of results, ensuring the viability of potential new services and lean launch prototypes.
- Effectively communicate final results to stakeholders, providing thorough documentation and supporting interactive visualizations of data for informed decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineers, and Account Management to translate customer requests into clearly defined, timely outputs that exceed customer expectations.
- As part of a dynamic team at StreetLight, proactively identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the evolution of our service offerings.
- In this role, you will harness the power of StreetLight's extensive repository of transportation data, formulating efficient queries to deliver the answers our customers seek
- Employing innovative visualization techniques and synthesizing diverse data sets, you willprovide comprehensive insights
- As a key contributor to our lean launch program, your data insights will enable the identification, prototyping, and validation of new product concepts
Our take
Ride-hailing services, the micro-mobility industry, and the rise in electric and self-driving vehicles are having a dramatic impact on the complex web of traffic in the U.S. General increases in road travel combined with these new transportation innovations are increasing traffic congestion, and current options to analyze the data behind this traffic for improved navigation efficiency are limited.
StreetLight uses location data from third-party smartphone apps in order to provide a real-time overview of traffic congestion levels. Through using this location data, the company can provide insights into any transportation system including micro-mobility vehicles and foot traffic, ultimately providing information to its customers to help manage and optimize transportation systems.
Several other companies are aiming to tackle shipping fleet efficiency, self-driving car communication, and other granular data points regarding traffic. However, Streetlight has taken a more unified approach through the use of smartphones, to provide a bigger picture of traffic data across every transportation method. The company has been acquired by Jacobs, an international technical professional services firm, providing the chance to increase its business reach on a global scale.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2020
$15m
SERIES D
Aug 2018
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.8m
Company benefits
- StreetLight Data offers a competitive salary and benefits package
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Schewel
(CEO)They studied at Yale and Berkeley and worked at the Rocky Mountain Institute as a Consultant. They also worked as an Analyst at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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