Senior Associate, Machine Learning Engineer

at  Bain Company Inc

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ABOUT US

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a fundamental role on technical decision making, embedded in projects and working with clients of different industries. You will also get your hands dirty writing code to get Machine Learning models working at real world production environments. This role teams up closely with Data Scientists, Impact Leaders, Consultants and Team Leaders to boost, deepen and streamline the development of innovative solutions that respond to high complexity problems.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Provide data science services to Bain case teams and clients worldwide.
• Work with other data scientists and case teams to assess client demands and suggest data science methods that provide practical, value-added answers to the client and case teams.
• Develop solutions that bring critical insights to wide scale of different problems such as targeting customers and segmenting markets, product design, marketing optimization, demand forecasting and brand valuation, profit and price analyses, and fraud detection.
• Develop, prototype and test machine learning algorithms on data sets that can range from a few data points to billions.
• Apply machine learning and statistical techniques including regression models, decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, support vector machines, clustering and topic models.
• Prepare various sources of data using data wrangling methods in Python, R and SQL, leveraging infrastructure including Cloud computing solutions and relational database environments.
• Keep abreast of new and current statistical methodologies, machine learning and data wrangling techniques.