Job Application for Software Engineer at Cision

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.

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Job Summary

As a Data Scientist, you will work within a cross-functional agile team contributing to the company's growth in a fast-moving environment. You will develop new tools and features by working closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and engineers. Ultimately, the goal is to help our users make smarter decisions. On top of that, you’ll have the support of a diverse, large team of data scientists working across all Brandwatch products to support your technical and career development. This role is open to people with a variety of professional and academic backgrounds and you can expect to develop your skills in a wide variety of techniques, including machine learning, statistical modelling, and computational linguistics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Work with stakeholders to clarity and refine questions.

Collect, clean, and prepare data, generally this will be large volumes of text along with metadata and will often need to be handled with big data tools.

Build models to solve a range of different problems, such as text classification and clustering, automated insight generation, and time series analysis.

Develop evaluation methodologies, which will vary from those based around conventional classification metrics (such as precision and recall), to designing methods to evaluate how well your tool helps a user achieve a defined task.

Support engineers as your projects are shipped. Sometimes you will also help maintain and upgrade the tools and technologies you develop.

Perform other duties as required to support evolving business needs.

Minimum Required Qualifications

A good working knowledge of Python (or another modern programming language, with willingness to learn Python).

A solid understanding of statistics and/or machine learning.

Enjoy an experimental and iterative approach to building products.

An ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders, or willingness to skill up in this area.

Preferred Qualifications

Working in a data science team.

Common data science libraries, such as Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, SKlearn, Spacy.

Big data tools, such as: Spark, Dask, MapReduce, or alternatives.

Cloud computing, for example: AWS EC2, S3.

Linux style shell commands.

Application prototyping frameworks such as Dash, or Shiny.

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr.support@cision.com

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