DATA SCIENCE INSTRUCTOR

Job Description

As a part time senior data instructor, you will:

  • Design and Develop FTW’s assessments engine to be able to evaluate students on analytical aptitude and individual skill sets within the data economy

  • Design and develop Data Science curriculum.

  • Teach, develop, and support any student, alumni, and team member to help them develop their data science and artificial intelligence skills

  • Learn and share new methods and techniques in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Responsibilities

  • Deliver lectures and tutorials on scientific Python, SQL, probability, statistics (Bayesian and frequentist), machine learning, AI, and data engineering.

  • Lead day-long courses maintaining a strong presence in the classroom and managing other instructional staff.

  • Deftly and patiently field student questions and provide feedback in lectures. Minimal office hours remotely delivered.

  • Utilize student feedback and experimentation to continuously improve teaching and assessment methods.

  • Evaluate new tools, packages, and tutorials for use in the curriculum. 

Skills and Qualifications

  • Excellent Python skills

  • Great communication skills

  • Experience in teaching data science and/or data analytics preferred but not required

  • Deep understanding of machine learning fundamentals, techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests, Neural Networks etc.

  • Knowledge in deep learning (GANs, CNN, LSTM,) preferred but not required.

  • Experience with common data science toolkits, such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, sklearn

  • Experience with data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc, Plotly Dash

  • Proficient in SQL

  • Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.

  • Good scripting and programming skills

  • Knowledge in AWS infrastructure preferred but not required.

Duration: 8 - 14 Saturdays, Flexible Work Schedule