Data Scientist at Korbit

Korbit is Korea's leading digital asset exchange. We currently offer trading among bitcoin, ethereum and Korean Won. We believe in the power of blockchain technology and digital assets to revolutionize many aspects of finance and society. Korbit is a privately held company based in Seoul, Korea. We are a growing startup backed by top venture investors from Silicon Valley, New York and Seoul.



We are looking to hire our first Data Scientist. This position will report to the CEO.



Responsibilities include:

- Gaining insights from data to support many areas of our business, including: user acquisition, user experience, fraud prevention, cybersecurity and trading strategy design.

- Identifying questions, running queries, applying statistical analysis, correlating disparate data.

- Predictive modeling, machine learning.

- Storytelling and visualization.



Desired Skills and Experience

- Understanding of any of these fields: fraud prevention, bitcoin and blockchain, financial markets, online marketing, software-as-a-service.

- Proven experience in the use of advanced statistical analysis methods.

- Coding experience in one (or more) scientific programming languages like Python/R.

- Expertise in SQL.

- A MSc or PHD in Statistics, Maths, Computer Science, Engineering, Physical Sciences, or another quantitative discipline is a plus.

Skills Machine Learning, Statistics, Financial Modeling, Digital Marketing, Quantitative Analysis, Fraud, Data Science, Blockchain Compensation $30K – $60K + Equity