Data Scientist Gen AI QA Remote

About Us

At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data

For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easytouse tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.

Data QA is an important function within Zyte. The Data QA team works to ensure that the quality and usability of the data scraped by our web scrapers meets and exceeds the expectations of our enterprise clients.

Are you passionate about data and data quality and integrity?

Do you enjoy using Python and AI to analyze and manipulate data, detect data quality issues, and visualize your findings?

Are you highly customerfocused with excellent attention to detail?

Owing to growing business and the need for ever more sophisticated Data QA, we are looking for a talented Data Scientist to join our team. As a Zyte Engineer, you work on AIbased data wrangling, data manipulation, and data visualisation techniques and apply them in the verification and validation of data quality as it pertains to data extracted from the web.

Requirements

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understand customer web scraping and data requirements; map these requirements to custom AIbased data quality validation techniques, with a focus on achieving preestablished degrees of data quality and uncovering data quality issues.
• Draw conclusions about data quality by producing descriptive and evidencebased statistics, summaries, and visualisations.
• Supplement existing manual QA and schema validation techniques with AIbased data quality verification.
• Collaborate with developers to further troubleshoot and pinpoint solutions.
• Present findings and conclusions to stakeholders at various levels (other members of the QA department, developers, project managers, account managers, customers).
• Write highquality, wellstructured code that is maintainable and extensible.
• Manage code using GitHub, BitBucket and other version control approaches as applicable.

• Requirements:

  • Highly proficient in Python and the PyData stack. Minimum of 3 years (please provide code samples in your application ideally pertaining to data analysis or Generative AI via a link to GitHub or other publiclyaccessible service).
  • BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent.
  • Up to speed on the latest advances in Generative AI particularly as they pertain to process automation, web scrapingparsing, and data quality verification.
  • Comfortable with Prompt Engineering and tokencost optimization.
  • Familiar with abstraction layers (MCP, Marvin, Langchain etc).
  • Experience coding against the APIs of at least one of the Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic models.
  • Experience in data quality visualization and the visualisation of data quality issues.
  • Ability to work with very large datasets (into the millions of records).
  • Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
  • Excellent level of written and spoken English; confident communicator; able to communicate on both technical and nontechnical levels with various stakeholders on all matters of QA.
  • Outstanding attention to detail.

  • Desired Skills:

    • Prior experience in a Data QA role (where the focus was on verifying data quality, rather than testing application functionality).
    • Familiarity with Jupyter and JupyterLab.
    • Experience building your own dashboards.
    • Experience with Spark, BigQuery, and other big data technologies.
    • Previous remote working experience.

    • Benefits

      As a new Zytan, you will:
      

      Become part of a selfmotivated, progressive, multicultural team.

      Have the freedom and flexibility to work from where you do your best work.

      Attend conferences and meet with team members from across the globe.

      Work with cuttingedge open source technologies and tools.