Data Science Digest - 13th February 2025

Nomic releases a Mixture-of-Experts embedding model with open data, source & weights, An early look at Datathon '25 and ScyllaDB Monster Scale summit, and Data Science Jobs at Humana, Walmart, McKinsey & Company and more.

February 13, 2025

Humana - Lead Data Scientist
United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Walmart - Senior, Data Scientist
United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Data Science news around the web

Nomic Embed Text V2: An Open Source, Multilingual, Mixture-of-Experts Embedding Model

“Today we're excited to announce Nomic Embed Text V2, our next-generation embedding model that brings the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture to text embeddings on a new expanded multilingual training dataset… We're open sourcing the pretraining data, finetuning data, and training code”

www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-text-v2

ScyllaDB - First Look at the Monster SCALE Summit Agenda

“The agenda for the 2-day Monster SCALE Summit (free + virtual) is now live! Take a look, register, and start choosing your own adventure across the 60+ tech talks. Here’s a peek at what you can expect...”

www.scylladb.com/2025/02/12/monser-scale-agenda

Microsoft Data Science - Countering data inbreeding in AI

“This article introduces the concept of data inbreeding in AI. It highlights how training AI models on homogeneous datasets may lead to biased and inaccurate outcomes, particularly in critical sectors like healthcare and finance… It also explores various statistical metrics and techniques that can be used for detecting and mitigating data inbreeding, helping to produce fair and effective AI systems.”

medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/countering-data-inbreeding-in-ai-1a55446a6cc8

Pytorch - Solve Real-Word AI Challenges with PyTorch at Datathon 2025: DataOrbit

“We’re excited to have PyTorch sponsor Datathon 2025: DataOrbit, a place where students can collaborate with a team to solve problems using real-world datasets! This event, hosted by Data Science UCSB in collaboration with Gaucho Sports Analytics and ACM@UCSB, will take place on February 22–23rd, 2025 at UC Santa Barbara, with the incredible opportunity to present your project to a panel of corporate and faculty judges – including the executive director of Pytorch! – for a chance to win prizes up to $3000.”

pytorch.org/blog/datathon-2025

Data science jobs

Confidential - Vice President of Machine Learning & Sensors
Waltham, MA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Confidential - Head of MLOps
Jersey City, NJ, United States
< Python, Cloud, ML, AI >

McKinsey & Company - Principal Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences
Boston, MA, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Humana - Lead Data Scientist
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

McKinsey & Company - Senior Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences
Chicago, IL, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Walmart - Principal, Data Scientist (Operations Research Bac...
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
< Python, AI >

McKinsey & Company - Principal Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Humana - Senior Data Scientist
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Technical Intelligence Solutions LLC - Senior Software Developer/Engineer
Reston, VA, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Walmart - Senior Distinguished I, Data Scientist | Intelligent Store Team
Castro Valley, CA, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

General Motors - Data Scientist Technical Lead - AI/ML
Warren, MI, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

Skyworks Solutions - Machine Learning Summer /Fall Co-Op
Irvine, CA, United States
< Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, ML, AI >

Humana - Lead Data Scientist
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Walmart - Data Scientist III, ML and Business Intelligence Engineering
Fremont, CA, United States
< Python, AR, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

Warner Media, LLC - Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, CA, United States
< Python, ML >

Walmart - Senior, Data Scientist
San Mateo, CA, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

McKinsey & Company - Senior Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Noblis - Cleared Data Scientist
Chantilly, VA, United States
< Python, Geospatial, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, ML >

Walmart - Staff, Data Scientist
San Bruno, CA, United States
< Python >

Snap - Staff Software Engineer, Retrieval Infrastructure
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United States
< AR, Cloud, ML >

Cubiq Recruitment - Senior Data Engineer
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, Robotics, ML, AI >

Quant Capital - Graduate Trading Desk Operations Engineer- (2025 Start)
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United Kingdom
< Cpp, Python >

Cubiq Recruitment - Senior Data Engineer
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, Robotics, ML, AI >

FJN Solutions - Data Engineering Architect
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure >

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions - Data Engineer
England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS >

HCLTech - GenAI Architect
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure, ML, AI >

Plan A Digital - C++ Developer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Cpp, Python, Robotics, AI >

middle - Senior Software Engineer - AI
Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom
< ML, AI >

Arrows - AI Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, ML, AI >

TALENDICA - Data Engineer
Montreal, QC, Canada
< Python, Cloud, AWS >

Capgemini - Data Warehouse Engineer
Montreal, QC, Canada
< Python, Cloud, AI >

ALTEN Canada - Développeur.se Logiciel Junior Java/Scala
Montreal, QC, Canada
< Python >

ALTEN Canada - Développeur.se Logiciel Java/Scala
Montreal, QC, Canada
< Python, AI >

BET99 - Data Scientist
Canada, None, Canada
< Python, Crypto, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, ML, AI >

SearchLabs - Data Modeler
Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Canada
< Cloud >

Inworld AI - Staff Machine Learning Engineer
Canada, None, Canada
< Unity, ML, AI >

Orange Business - Data Architect / Consultant Data Senior H/F
Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France
< Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Meritis | B Corp™ - Cloud Data Engineer
Île-de-France, France, France
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Apside - Data Engineer
Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

CONNECTMETA.AI - Data Engineering Training & Internship
France, None, France
< Python, UX, UI >

Thales - Ingénieur Dataviz
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, None, France
< Python >

Vivid Resourcing - Senior Data Engineer
Utrecht, Netherlands, Netherlands
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS, ML, AI >

Barrington James - Senior Platform Engineer (Machine Learning)
Amsterdam Area, None, Netherlands
< Cpp, Python, Health, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

SucceedIT - PowerBI consultant
None, None, Netherlands
< Azure >