Open-Source Modeling Python Developer 

Description

This software development role focuses on creating new tools for tabular data analysis and modeling. You will create Python APIs and packages to fill in gaps of common data analysis activities focused on tabular data. This includes:

• Exploratory data analysis.
• Data preparation, feature engineering, and preprocessing.
• Supervised and unsupervised models.
• Visualization methods for models and results.
• Tools for model interrogation.
• Presentation, visualization, and documentation of results.

This position involves new packages and possibly contributing to scikit-learn. It does not involve creating, testing, or deploying specific machine learning models. It is a pure software development position. 

How We Work

At Posit, open-source developers operate somewhat differently to traditional software engineering. As an open source developer, you have the opportunity to help guide the roadmap and priorities based on your technical knowledge of the problem domain, feedback from users, and in-depth technical understanding. You will not be given a static to-do list from others but will work end-to-end: writing code and tests, documenting APIs, giving tutorials, and keeping the community updated to date with your work. We look for independent developers who are deeply invested in a given domain and we give them an environment designed to support high productivity. We work in small groups, with minimal meetings and plenty of focus time. 

Posit welcomes all talented colleagues and are committed to a culture that represents diversity in all its forms. We operate under a unique sustainable business model: We have over 50% of our engineering dedicated to creating free and open source software.  We are profitable and we plan to be around decades from now. Posit is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and a Certified B Corporation®, which means our open-source mission is codified into our charter. As a result, our corporate decisions balance the community’s interests, customers, employees, and shareholders. Hear more about why we think this matters here.

What You Will Be Doing

1. Help develop strategy

• Learn where needs are not currently met based on personal experience and community engagement. 
• Prioritize projects and create development roadmap. 

2. Create, document, and maintain tooling for modeling in Python

• Development and documentation of code.
• Reproducing and diagnosing reported bugs, converting them into unit tests, and developing code to fix them.
• Collaborating with team members to plan and execute new feature development.
• Writing user-friendly API documentation and user guides.
• Engaging with the open-source community.

3. Engage with the Python data analysis community

• Training.
• Blog posts.
• Presentations.
• Other DevRel activities.

About You

• You have a strong, fundamental understanding of and experience with Python. Python should be your primary language. 
• You have an in-depth understanding of advanced techniques for tabular data, such as machine learning, statistical analysis, and visualization.
• You have experience with Git/GitHub.
• You enjoy sharing and exchanging knowledge and expertise with coworkers and users. 
• (Preferred) You have experience with creating or contributing to Python packages.
• (Preferred)  You have real-world experience in analysis and modeling of tabular data.