FlightAware

FlightAware is expanding its world-class team that builds the predictive technology behind the FlightAware Foresight product suite. FlightAware Foresight is already used by some of the largest airports and airlines in the world to improve operational efficiencies on the ground and in the air. As a senior data scientist at FlightAware, you will work alongside talented developers, systems engineers, and analysts to design, evaluate and improve state-of-the-art machine learning models underlying both current and future Foresight products. You would bring scientific rigor and statistical methods into a multi-disciplinary engineering group pushing the industry forward and tackling some of the hardest problems in this space. We train thousands of models on hundreds of thousands of CPU cores using datasets with hundreds of millions of examples, and we stream real-time flight data from around the world through these models running on multiple clusters in order to produce thousands of inferences per second. These models compute estimated runway landing and gate arrival times for commercial and GA flights around the world. FlightAware in general processes over 180 million incoming messages per hour from over 22,000 individual data feeds. You would bring a broad technical and engineering background with you, allowing you to design solutions that can scale and operate in this demanding environment. We’re looking for someone with a solid real-world track record of delivering complex machine learning systems in production that solve well-defined business problems. This is decidedly a senior-level role, although less experienced but truly exceptional candidates will be considered. We have no formal requirements about educational background; while a PhD is probably a plus, it’s not required, and we’re more impressed by real-world results. You need a nontrivial expertise in statistics, machine learning, statistical learning, and deep learning that goes beyond what a talented engineer might learn studying in the evenings for fun. You also need a solid engineering foundation; you wouldn’t be isolated from infrastructure and systems engineers but would be working with and alongside them. FA is a small company (currently ~100 employees), but we’re not a startup. We’ve been around for over a decade and don’t rely on VC funding. Our Foresight team alone produces millions of dollars of revenue. The company is successful, profitable, and growing. And we just built out a brand new modern office space in Houston. To apply, please send me an email using the email in my profile here.