Data Scientist - School of Computer Science - Benguerir

About the School

The School of Computer Science (UM6P-CS) is located in the future Green City of Benguerir.  It provides world-class university education in computer science promoting discovery and innovation. The School currently offers an engineering degree in computer engineering, two executive masters program in machine learning and cybersecurity, and a doctoral program in computer science.

About the Group

The Data Management Group (DMG) at UM6P-CS is a growing and supportive team with internationally-recognized expertise in data management. The group has a strong network of national and international collaborators in both academia and industry.

Job Description
The DMG at UM6P-CS is seeking two data scientists who will support the group’s projects in the rapidly growing field of scalable data science over massive collections of high-dimensional data.

The role of each data scientist will be to:

• manage the ingestion of data from different data sources.
• develop and implement rigorous data quality procedures over heterogeneous datasets.
• design and develop machine learning models that scale to large datasets.
• help set up and conduct experiments.
• collaborate in writing scientific papers.

Application:

• Applications should be submitted online and emailed to karima.echihabi@um6p.ma with the subject "[Data Scientist Position]".
• Strong recent graduates or students in their final year of study are also encouraged to apply.
• Emailed application materials should contain an up-to-date CV and a zipped archive which includes a cover letter and full transcripts (including those of high-school). The CV should clearly indicate the following information: type of high-school degree obtained (e.g., Sciences Mathematiques A), overall high-school average, Mathematics grade in the national exam, and overall average/ranking in university studies.

Qualifications

• Engineering or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong mathematical knowledge, particularly in linear algebra, probability and statistics.
• Strong programming skills with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/GPU, etc.) and libraries in data analysis workflow (NumPy, Matplotlib, etc.).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and teamwork skills.
• Good time management and task prioritization skills.
• Experience with recommender systems and/or deep network embeddings is highly desirable.