without visa sponsorship relocation does not apply to this position southern california edison an edison international nyseeix company serves a population of approximately 15 million via 5 million customer accounts in a 50000squaremile service area within central coastal and southern california join the utility leader that is safely delivering reliable affordable electricity to our customers for over 125 years sce is a proud equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate based on race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability protected veteran status or any other protected status l1ea1 job description energy for whats ahead are you looking to make a difference in your career were working on smarter grids cleaner energy and tools to help people manage energy more efficiently about transmission and distribution southern california edisons sces transmission and distribution organizational unit t d is responsible for planning engineering constructing operating and maintaining transmission and distribution facilities throughout the 50000squaremile territory td is the steward of roughly 19 billion in assets that safely and reliably deliver electricity to 15 million residents via sces 5 million customer accounts position overview this junior data scientist will be working closely with senior data scientists and partner with other analytics team members to turn data into critical information and insights that can be used to make sound business decisions this includes providing data that is congruent and reliable you need to be a great teammate creative thinker and propose innovative ways to look at problems by using data mining approaches on the sets of information available this data scientist will support development and implementation of advanced predictingforecasting models using statistical and machine learning methods typical responsibilities perform advanced analytical studies to discover and resolve business problems and generate business insights work closely with senior data scientists and advisors to assist on developing solutions to dataintensive business problems collaborate with other sce analytic teams and data scientists across the company on big data analytics techniques and tools to improve and enable our analytics capabilities use available and relevant data including internal and external data sources leverage new data collection processes collaborate with other data scientists and advisors to select relevant sources of information on data collection preparation integration quality exploration and retention use machine learning data mining and statistical techniques to craft new scalable solutions for business problems work with data scientists to perform variable selection and other standard modeling tasks such as variable reduction and grid search for model optimization develop simple visualizations of results produce model performance metrics prepare deliverable reports for business teams qualifications minimum qualifications bachelors in a quantitative discipline such as statistics mathematics engineering computer science or information sciences such as business analytics or informatics three or more years of experience in data mining predictive modeling machine learning statistical modeling and large scale data acquisition proficient with r and python desired qualifications one of more years of experience developing tools for data acquisition extraction transformation management and manipulation of large and complex data