At least 7 leading multinationals are hiring data scientists during the lockdown in India

• With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting businesses, the demand for emerging technologies like data science has accelerated further.
  
• As per Deloitte, data scientists and AI/ML engineers are the most sought after professionals.
  
• This week, Business Insider brings job openings across the top multinationals in the emerging technologies like data science and machine learning.

With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting businesses, the demand for emerging technologies like data science has accelerated further. While the demand is high, there is a serious dearth of talent in the sector.

As per Deloitte, data scientists and AI/ML engineers are the most sought after professionals.

Every week, Business Insider collates interesting vacancies across marquee organisations. A few such vacancies are listed here. This week we bring job openings across the top multinationals in the emerging technologies like data science and machine learning.

Here are a few of those opportunities:

Cisco

Position: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 15 years
Eligibility: Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science

Cisco is hiring a senior data scientist for the data and analytics team. The selected hire will work on the data analytical platform, define and design the overall architecture. He will lead the team of data engineers and data scientists and lay out an implementation plan based on the business requirements.

The selected data scientist will also collaboratively work with customer success, IT, sales, marketing and product teams.

To apply for the job, the candidate must be skilled in programming languages, scripting and software packages for data analysis such as Python and R. In addition, he should also have working knowledge of big data frameworks such as Hadoop and Spark.

Interested candidates can apply here.

Amazon

Position: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 8 years
Eligibility: MS or PhD in computer science, machine learning, operational research or statistics

E Commerce giant Amazon is looking for an experienced data scientist in Bengaluru — who will apply machine learning methods to drive business and customer satisfaction. He will prototype solutions to test feasibility and build ML models and test them for better performance.

The selected candidate will also automate feedback loops for algorithms in production and work on statistical modelling and data visualisation.

The candidate must have an understanding of frameworks like Hadoop, AWS (Amazon Web Services) and cloud computing along with proficiency in SAAS and R.

Interested candidates can apply here.

IBM

Position: Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 9 years
Eligibility: Not Specified

IBM is hiring data scientists who will analyse the information and collaborate with the product development team to drive business. The candidate will work on open source and visual tools to analyse trends and patterns.

To apply, the candidate must have experience in cloud services and deployment models like PaaS, IaaS and XaaS along with the understanding of middleware such as Oracle, SAP, DB2, MySql and Apache.

Interested candidates can apply here.

Ericsson

Position: Principal Data Scientist - Product Development
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 15 years
Eligibility: Bachelors, masters or PhD in computer science, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and electrical engineering

Ericsson is inviting applications for a global AI accelerator in India who will lead AI/Ml projects for the company. He will be responsible for managing planning, collaboration and feedback loops. The selected hire will work on large datasets including petabytes of 4G and 5G-networks, IoT.

He will also work on defining the data sourcing, access and pipeline design and data sourcing strategy to procure data.

The applicants must have experience in programming languages like R and Python and knowledge of mathematics, probability, statistics needed for data analysis and experiments.

Interested candidates can apply here.

Johnson & Johnson

Position: Senior Data Science Application Developer
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 4 years
Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree in IT

Johnson & Johnson is looking for a digital application development expert. The selected hire will have to design, develop, test, document and maintain production software along with formulating reusable quality codes.

To apply for the job, the candidate must have an understanding of conceptualization, prototyping, debugging & developing digital products, applications & solutions along with excellent communication skills.

Interested candidates can apply here.

Slack

Position: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Pune
Experience: Minimum 8 years
Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Slack is looking for an experienced data engineer who will work with domain experts, analytics, and engineering teams to design and implement data warehouse models. The candidate will also look after the analytics tech ecosystem as a whole — including warehouse, ETL and business intelligence tools.

He will work on data sets and strategise data governance, security, privacy, quality and retention activities to drive the business.

To apply for the job, the candidate must have strong knowledge of programming languages, big data concepts and experience in SQL, dimensional modeling, supporting data warehouse, scaling and optimizing, performance tuning and ETL pipelines.

Interested candidates can apply here.

Walmart Labs

Position: Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: Minimum 10 years
Eligibility: Bachelor's, master's or PhD degree

Walmart Labs is hiring experienced software engineers as a part of the development team that provides ML platform as a service for data scientists, business users. The selected hire will manage end-to-end engineering solutions for machine learning. He will also work to integrate data science solutions into products and monitor cloud platforms.

To apply for the job, the candidate must have strong fundamental knowledge of algorithms, data structures, databases, operating systems and working knowledge of python, R, Matlab or SAS.

Interested candidates can apply here.