Founding Data Scientist

About Terminal

Terminal is Plaid for Telematics in commercial trucking. Companies building the next generation of insurance products, financial services and fleet software for trucking use our Universal API to access GPS data, speeding data and vehicle stats.

We are a fast growing, venture-backed startup supported by top investors including Y Combinator, Golden Ventures and Wayfinder Ventures. Our exceptionally talented team is based in Toronto, Canada.

For more info, check out our website: https://withterminal.com

About the role

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a passionate Founding Data Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will play a critical part in helping Terminal and our customers deeply understand the large volume of data we ingest (years of high-frequency GPS + other related telematics data). You will translate business requirements into data science capabilities, build solutions to benchmark and improve data quality, support the development of our data platform, and support customers with data insights and analysis. Your work will be instrumental in making Terminal the leader in aggregating telematics data for risk and insight.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and internal business requirements into data science capabilities
• Design methods to benchmark data quality across integrations, devices and fleets
• Develop statistical models to validate data quality and annotate anomalies for consumers
• Develop models and aggregations to support internal and external analytics use cases; collaborating with engineering to implement in production
• Research, develop and test models to predict fleet risk and safety from telematics data
• Design and implement data pipelines and infrastructure to support R&D and data analysis
• Enable objective decision making across the company by democratizing data through dashboards and other analytical tools
• Support customers developing telematics risk models by sharing best practices and insights from our data and research

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data focused roles, including 3+ years as a full-time data scientist
• Proficiency with Python and working in a production coding environment
• End-to-end experience with data, including pipeline development, modelling, querying, aggregation, analysis, and visualization
• Excellent communication skills when conveying complex concepts to diverse audiences
• Preferred but not required: experience building data pipelines at TB-PB scale
• Preferred but not required: experience with telematics or other geo-temporal data

Tech Stack

• Data: You will be part of defining the core technologies used in our data platform
• Backend: AWS serverless architecture deployed with SST framework, featuring:
  • Language: Node.js (TypeScript)
  • Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, and Step Functions
• Frontend: Next.js deployed with SST framework and styled with Tailwind
• Infrastructure as Code: SST and CDK
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Benefits

• Strong compensation and equity packages
• Brand new MacBook and computer equipment
• Top-tier health/dental benefits and an flexible healthcare spending account
• Personal spending account for professional development, fitness and wellness
• Four weeks paid time off + statutory holidays
• In-person culture with an office located in downtown Toronto