Upwork is hiring a Time series forecasting - long-term contract - Contract to Hire

We are looking for a talented data scientist to join our team.

Job requirements:

1. 2+ years experience with data science tasks

2. Specialist in time series forecasting

3. Know how to work on Aws as a cloud infrastructure

4. Know how to work on big data (billions of rows)

5. Know how to work on existing GitHub repos with implemented code.

Job info:

Your job is to replace our previous data scientist and continue his job to:

1. improve accuracy of demand forecasting problem, 3 years of history data weekly based,20k+ items, 50+ different stores (we are using xgb for now, have already tried deepar+, deeper, Arima)

2. Increase the amount of data (big data knowledge)

3. Implement the pipeline on AWS servers (cleaning, preprocessing, forecasting.)

4. Format the predictions with our use case format.

5. Make everything prepared for more clients