Desk Data Scientist - Oil Trading - London

Job Description We are recruiting a Desk Data Scientist to work as a part of the Crude oil trading desk for a major energy trader. Our client is widely regarded as ‘best in class’ in the Data Science / AI space. The Role: Being an energetic and enthusiastic member of a team / unlock the power of data to bear on the inner workings of the energy industry Ability to relate effortlessly with the Crude trading business, continuously looking for new ways how AI/DS can create value for the desk Exploring new datasets, extracting insights, and visualizing the results Leading design, development, and deployment of machine learning systems / create real solutions to real problems Helping build data and machine learning expertise within the business through knowledge sharing Qualifications: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. Ph.D. is a plus Fluency in Python with the ability to write clean, modular, well-documented code 3-5+ years in industry developing and deploying machine learning models Extensive experience exploring and extracting insights from heterogeneous multi-dimensional data set Time series modelling (both machine-learning and econometric approaches) Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) an…