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Description

United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job overview and responsibilities

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The Analytics and Innovation (Ai) team at United Airlines works to innovate, transform, and solve complex business problems resulting in significant and measurable enterprise impact through the application of deep cross-functional business expertise and advanced analytics. We work with business and technology partners across the enterprise (e.g. Airport Operations, Contact Centers, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Digital Products, Human Resources, etc.) to influence strategic decisions, enterprise strategy, business process, and to help connect the dots across the enterprise. We aim to be an organization with whom and within everyone loves to work!

Data Scientists within Ai partner with business and technology leaders across the company to deploy AI & ML powered solutions to support and automate business processes. The team works closely with other teams in digital technology with complementing skills and capabilities. The key objectives are to drive incremental revenue, boost customer engagement and to automate manual processes by leveraging state-of-the-art ML techniques. Data Scientists contribute in developing smart and innovative solutions across many of United’s departments.

• Working on projects in conjunction with business teams to identify opportunities for improvement, gather and analyze information and data, develop improvements and innovations
• Apply knowledge of statistics, machine learning, programming, and data modeling to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, evaluate business opportunities, and deliver valuable insights
• Effectively structure communication of insights from work streams and deliver clear and professional presentations to the team/team leaders/managers/stakeholders
• Apply techniques including regression models, decision trees, random forests, gradient boosting, support vector machines, clustering, and NLP/CV algorithms
• Formulate and develop end-to-end project pipelines to deploy scalable solutions on company platforms
• Execute solutions to business problems using data analysis, machine learning and optimization tools
• Research latest machine learning approaches and share the knowledge across the team
  

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Quantitative field like Math, Statistics, Operations Research
• Full time 3-4 years relevant work experience in analytics/data science
• Proven comfort and an intellectual curiosity for working with very large sets of data, and hands-on knowledge in predictive modeling
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Programming Languages (Python), SQL, Excel and other Microsoft Office products
• Proficiency with mathematics and statistical analysis with significant hands-on experience in AI / Data Science.
• Knowledge in machine learning algorithms like Regression, Bagging (Decision Trees, RF), Boosting (XGBoost, GBM) , Clustering (KMeans), NLP
• Ability to bridge business context with technical details and explain and discuss mathematical and machine learning technicalities to a business audience
• Ability to work as an individual contributor
• Strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork
  

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• Master's degree
• Data Science, Business Analytics, Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics
• Previous airline business experience
• Knowledge of deep learning/neural networks and experience with CV
• Sound understanding in AWS Services including Sagemaker, Redshift, Athena, S3 & AWS data lake
• Experience in developing & deploying the end-to-end data science pipeline into production