Senior Data Scientist + Instructor

Senior Data Scientist + Instructor

Experience: 4 - 10 Years Exp

Salary: Competitive

Preferred Notice Period: Upto 30 Days

Opportunity Type: Office (Pune)

Placement Type: Full-time

Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' Clients Newton School

Must have skills: Machine Learning AND K-means AND Clustering

About Newton School:

Come be part of a rocket ship that’s creating a massive impact in the world of education! On one side you have over a million college graduates every year with barely 5% employability rates and on the other side, there are thousands of companies struggling to find talent. Newton School aims to bridge this massive gap through its personalized learning platform. We are building an online university and solving the deep problem of the employability of graduates.We have a strong core team consisting of alumni from IITs and IIM, having several years of industry experience in companies like Unacademy, Inmobi, Ola, and Microsoft - among others. On this mission, we are backed by some of the most respected investors around the world, - RTP Global, Nexus Venture Partners, and a slew of angel investors including CRED’s Kunal Shah, Flipkart’s Kalyan Krishnamoorthy, Unacademy and Razorpay founders, Udaan’s Sujeet Kumar among others.

About the Role:

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop and deliver comprehensive and engaging lectures for the undergraduate "Data Mining", “Big Data”, and “Data Analytics” courses, covering the full syllabus from foundational concepts to advanced techniques.
• Instruct students on the complete data lifecycle, including data preprocessing, cleaning, transformation, and feature engineering.
• Teach the theory, implementation, and evaluation of a wide range of algorithms for Classification, Association rules mining, Clustering, and Anomaly Detection.
• Design and facilitate practical lab sessions and assignments that provide students with hands-on experience using modern data tools and software.
• Develop and grade assessments, including assignments, projects, and examinations, that effectively measure the Course Learning Objectives (CLOs).
• Mentor and guide students on projects, encouraging them to work with real-world or benchmark datasets (e.g., from Kaggle).
• Stay current with the latest advancements, research, and industry trends in data engineering and machine learning to ensure the curriculum remains relevant and cutting-edge.
• Contribute to the academic and research environment of the department and the university.

Required Qualifications:

• A Ph.D. (or a Master's degree with significant, relevant industry experience) in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrable 4-10 years of expertise in the core concepts of data engineering and machine learning as outlined in the syllabus.
• Strong practical proficiency in Python and its data science ecosystem, specifically Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, and visualization libraries (e.g., Matplotlib, Seaborn).
• Proven experience in teaching, preferably at the undergraduate level, with an ability to make complex topics accessible and engaging.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A strong record of academic publications in reputable data mining, machine learning, or AI conferences/journals.
• Prior industry experience as a Data Scientist, Big Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) and/or deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience in mentoring student teams for data science competitions or hackathons.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary packages aligned with industry standards.
• Access to state-of-the-art labs and classroom facilities.
• To know more about us, feel free to explore our website: Newton School of Technology. We look forward to the possibility of having you join our academic team and help shape the future of tech education!

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