Job Description

EXTERNAL TITLE: Data Visualization Scientist INTERNAL TITLE: Scientist, Decision Sciences

As a Data Visualization Scientist in our Decision Sciences Visualization team, you will create innovative visual analytics systems that reveal, explore and explain complex patterns and phenomena from Epsilon’s peta-scale and massively-dimensional digital marketing ecosystem.  You will reduce this complexity into sophisticated, interactive visual metaphors and stories that demonstrate the business value of Epsilon’s platform directly to our stakeholders and global customers. Our visualization challenges span hundreds of millions of highly detailed individual profiles across hundreds of millions of web sites and apps tied together by sophisticated real-time analytics that make near instantaneous decisions on messaging to those profiles trillions of times a day. This provides an incredibly rich environment of business questions and answers that are hidden within petabytes of data. 

In this role, you will be a key member of a highly talented and multi-disciplinary R&D team creating a full-stack visual analytics system that connects to big data platforms and machine learning systems to present complex enterprise-critical information in an engaging, intuitive and informative manner. This is a multi-faceted team effort involving an array of technologies such as D3.js, Reactjs, Python, Spark, SQL, Hadoop, Elastic Search, GPU clusters and more. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Research, design and build machine learning systems that identify unique clusters of activity within complex peta-scale digital marketing ecosystems
• Develop an understanding of Epsilon’s Digital Media Solutions (DMS) personalization platform and proprietary datasets
• Research and design of innovative visual analytics systems that demonstrate the value of the Epsilon platform and that help our clients to understand how their customers interact with them in complex digital marketing ecosystems 
• Implement production versions of the visual analytics views and components using your programming skills in D3.js, Typescript and/or React 
• Design and develop user scaffolding to support the visual analytics system to create for a rich collaborative environment
• Collaborate with the Analytics and Decision Sciences teams to understand intricacies of the AI and machine learning models in ways that can be translated to key stakeholders demonstrating the interaction of those models with their target customers

QUALIFICATIONS

• A Ph.D. (or Master’s degree plus at least four years of relevant experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, Human-Computing Interaction (HCI) or a related scientific discipline
• Hands-on programming capabilities developing interactive visualizations with D3.js, JavaScript, React and/or Typescript
• Possess skills developing interactive visual analytics systems, ideally as a full-stack system 
• Passion to work collaboratively with cross-functional groups and team members having a broad set of skills including data engineering, full stack systems, data science, data visualization, UI and UX
• An accomplished visualization portfolio showcasing your talents as an individual contributor and/or as part of a collaborative team
• Proficient oral and written communication skills
• Passion to work collaboratively with cross-functional groups

ADDITIONAL, BUT NOT REQUIRED SKILLS

• Experience with SQL or other databases on traditional servers, and with back-end development on full stacks
• Experience with Elastic Search or GPU databases
• Experience with Docker deployments
• Experience with Gatsby
• Foundational graphic design knowledge with experiences using layouts, color and typography to make interfaces look aesthetically appealing

Additional Information

GREAT PEOPLE, DESERVE GREAT BENEFITS We know that we have some of the brightest and most talented associates in the world, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, expect competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, and endless opportunities to advance your career.

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.

Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process.

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