Oracle Morocco hire a Data Scientist @Oracle Labs in Casablanca

6 months initial temporary contract with Oracle with the possibility to be extended into permanent employment directly with Oracle

Are you passionate about programming and want to join a fast growing international team that is brainstorming crazy ideas and turning them into practical products? Then we are looking for you.

Our mission is simple: Make programs run faster and programmers more productive. Our world-class research and advanced development team at Oracle Labs is constantly innovating in the area of compilers, virtual machines, and programming languages.

Information extracted from large amounts of data is the precious metal of the digital age and Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, the tools to mine this information, are becoming a key value-producing asset in all industries.

To remain at the forefront of data management and analysis research, Oracle Labs is looking to expand its data science team.
If you are passionate about data science and are ready to embark with us on a journey to develop new systems and services that can bring the enterprise world to the next level in ML and AI adoption, then we are looking for you!

Oracle Labs is the advanced R&D arm of Oracle, we focus on the development of technologies that keep Oracle at the forefront of the computer industry.

Oracle Labs is the only organization at Oracle which is devoted exclusively to research

What we offer:

While demand for data scientists is soaring across the industry, this opportunity at Oracle Labs offers unique possibilities, including:

· Challenging and changing tasks in the context of creating new products.

· To think BIG – it not a joke – we are offering to work on next generation technology and do research in products that Oracle is going to develop in the future. Did you know that Java was originally a product from Labs?

· International self-organized team with diverse backgrounds.

· Ability to publish the results of your achievements.

· Opportunities for career growth.

· Competitive pay and benefits

· Being part of one of the most strategic department of Oracle and cooperate with smart people in Labs globally

· Being part of a growing, dynamic, international team across Africa (Morocco), Europe (Zürich, Prague) and the USA (Redwood Shores).

· Bridging cutting-edge academic research with customer demand by developing novel techniques that address real-world problems.

· Working on coupling the emerging property graph data model with ML and AI techniques with the goal of achieving unprecedented performance in challenging tasks (e.g., multiclass classification, recommender systems, topic analysis, entity linking, …) grounded on real-world applications

What you will do:

Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. As a member of the software engineering division, you will apply basic to intermediate knowledge of software architecture to perform software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications or operating systems according to provided design specifications.

Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture. Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel.

Preferred Skills / Experience

The successful candidate is expected to have a wide and diverse set of relevant skills, in particular:

Excellent knowledge of classic ML, NLP, and AI tasks
Experience with classic ML and AI tools and techniques
Experience in designing and deploying ML and AI tools in real-world applications
Good programming skills in (multiple) data science languages and frameworks (e.g., Python, R, TensorFlow, Spark, …)
Team-playing attitude to join an agile team in developing cutting-edge technology
Excellent communication (speaking, writing design reports and presentations) in English