Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

Department: Intelligence Collection

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Stephen Hazelton

Description

Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer?  Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before?  Are you looking for a values-led company, which cares about the growth of its employees?
The impact you will have:
Your task is the ruthless pursuit of blockchain identity labels through powerful modelling.

Your days are split between our proprietary dataset and on-chain developments, identifying the most effective models to build and building them.
Your team’s success is measured by the scale and value of the intelligence you generate. This intelligence powers everything we sell and everything we say here at Elliptic.

Key Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Stay abreast of technical developments on chain and in the ecosystem through continuous research.
• Use the knowledge you gain above to identify new models to build. Prioritise based on efficiency, unit economics and value to our business.
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with engineers, blockchain analysts, data scientists, researchers. Your shared goal is creating intelligence, you contribute in different ways.
• Be deeply opinionated about where we’re spending our time (as the above team in particular, but also as a company), and how we can increase the value of our intelligence.
• Own your time and output based on the above. Is your time better spent today building a model or researching a new more powerful model?
• Participate in a collegiate group of blockchain experts, share your knowledge across our business wherever it is effective.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

You will be a great fit here if you:

• Are highly curious and sceptical.
• Have experience digging into huge datasets, spotting quirks in the data and pulling the thread - finding the truth.
• Can focus only on analysis or models which will  be useful for our business - cut through the noise.
• Are entrepreneurial and create connections, both internally and within the community.
• Are very interested in Cryptocurrencies.
  
  

Our ideal candidate:

• Has a STEM degree.
• Has experience defining effective metrics, monitoring the results and optimising accordingly.
• Is comfortable querying data with SQL and Python.
• Can optimise queries for huge datasets.
• Has a solid understanding of blockchain ecosystem elements like DeFi, Exchanges, Wallets, Smart Contracts, mixers and privacy services.

Bonus Experience:

• Databricks and PySpark
• Analysing blockchain data
• Building and maintaining data pipelines
• Deploying machine learning models
• Use of graph analytics and graph neural networks
• Following funds on chain by using block explorers
  
  

Job Benefits

> How we work:

• Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space

> Learning & Development:

• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

> Vacation/ Leave:

• Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.

> Benefits:

• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 cryptocurrency for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme