Want to be part of our winning team and contribute to a global impact in

innovation & entrepreneurship?

Type of position: FULL TIME.

Location: Portugal, Lisbon (Av. Das Forças Armadas, 1649-026).

Package: 12 month Internship, competitive remuneration subject to experience and skillset of individual

applicants.

Prospects: This job has a significant opportunity to grow into a full time job, working for a cutting-edge

business with strong growth prospects. BGI is already one of the largest accelerators in Europe, and its own

ambitious internal projects are expanding with potential to form high spin-off value start-ups. For a keen,

ambitious and talented individual, looking for exciting work and a rewarding payoff, the sky is the limit.

Posted on 27.10.2014

Building Global Innovators Accelerator (www.mitportugal-bgi.org/) is recruiting a Data Scientist to join its team

asap. Min. Experience: significant programming experience with Hadoop or other ‘Big Data’ execution

environment.

We are looking for people who are excited by data, are quick in recognizing patterns and enjoy building

mathematical models.

1. Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and perform data analysis

• Create mathematical models and algorithms

• Enforce consistent data formatting and modeling standards to facilitate merging multiple diverse data types

• Support technical development of analytical processing environments and algorithms to generate data

product outputs

• Create performance metrics and tracking processes to measure the effectiveness of predictive modeling

efforts

• Generate and test working hypotheses, prepares and analyzes historical data, identifies patterns from

samples for reporting of trends and supporting predictive analytics

• Utilize data mining techniques and information retrieval methods to gather business intelligence

• Work in collaboration manner with team members and customers to gather requirements and test new data

products

• Becoming conversant in new analytic technologies, architectures and languages – where necessary – for

storing, processing and manipulating this type of data

• Developing a flair for the exploratory and experimental side of the role; required to tease out interesting and

previously unknown insights in vast pools of data

2.1 Must have Hard Skills:

• Computer Science (Ph.D. preferred, Masters minimum), Statistics or similar technical field, or 3+ years

experience in a relevant role

• Demonstrated expertise in a computational field

• Demonstrated ability to implement sophisticated algorithms at scale

• Solid background in computer science

• Experience with R, Matlab, Python or other scientific computing language

• Good awareness of software engineering practice

2.2 Must have Soft Skills:

• Entrepreneurial & pragmatic mindset

• High degree of personal motivation and ability to self-manage and self start

• Ready, willing and able to make the success of the project a central focus of your life

3. Other Nice to have:

• Startup Experience

• Experience with SQL & Graph Databases

• Understanding of MapReduce or Lucene

• Proven track record and passion for math, statistics and machine learning

• Ability to quickly relocate to Lisbon (place of work will be Lisbon)

We guarantee an environment with plenty of freedom, autonomy, responsibility and opportunity for growth. Do

you think you are "the one" for this position? Send us an email, goncalo.amorim@bgi.pt

What is BGI®?Held once a year, BGI is an global Tech Transfer Accelerator (TTA) directed at would-be tech entrepreneurs and Innovators (tech start-up / spin-outs under 5 years), working on 4 market-application tracks: i) Medical Technologies & Health IT, ii) Smart cities & Industrial Tech, iii) Enterprise IT & Smart Data and iv) Ocean Economy.

What does BGI have to offer?20 startups are selected every year to BGI accelerator and benefit from expert mentoring amounting to over 1.150h, which includes boot camps in Lisbon (Portugal) and Cambridge (USA), valued at 1M€ of in kind support. Every year about 10 out of the 20 accelerated ventures attracts some form of financing. 4 selected ventures are also supported by BGI Award sponsor - Caixa Capital, with up to €500.000 of convertible notes. Unlike the traditional accelerators, BGI supports alumni ventures for up to 5 years.

What does BGI ask in return?BGI takes no more than 5% post money on a minimum (valuation of €1 million (pre-money) in those companies which are selected for investment by Caixa Capital. Apart from that, BGI does not charge its entrepreneurs in any way. No seed funding per founder is provided nor BGI gets an equity stake during the acceleration or post graduation period of up to 5 years. However, BGI gets a warrant via the aforementioned subscription up to 5% post money on a minimum €1M pre-money.

What is BGI's track record?BGI key metrics: in 4 editions, 80 startups were supported, out of which 55 are active (69%), over half securing venture financing amounting €28 million (post BGI), 62% from Angel & VC. The average venture financing per company is 664k€ and 48.3% of BGI companies get funded by early stage investors. BGI alumni largest cumulative round to date was € 3.9 million per company, whereas the smallest was 40k€. We are planning our first exit in the course of 2015.

How does the accelerator work?

With part of the Organising team based in Lisbon at ISCTE-IUL and part in Boston at MIT, the acceleration is provided via a combination of uniquely designed boot camps (2 in Lisbon@ISCTE and 1 in Cambridge@MIT) that help hone in the skills of tech-based entrepreneurs and focus teams on critical steps in successful go to market and de-risking strategies before approaching investors. Each boot camp typically runs from 1 to 2 weeks and is extremely intensive. After graduation, BGI concentrates/limits its support to the top 12 (out of the 20 per edition) for a period of up to 5 years via a formal catalyst program (1st year) and continuous coaching over the following years until companies exit or fail.

How can you get involved?

BGI is country and origin agnostic, nearly 40% of all submissions come from 22 countries outside of Portugal (Portugal ranks 25 as one the ease of doing business). After having built a strong network in the USA, BGI is currently focused in expanding it's valuable network in Europe and beyond. Meaning that we’re looking for strategic partners in strategic geographies. Most of BGI's candidates stem from a strong network of university and private incubators, accelerators and Business Angel early stage portfolios. Hence, prior to BGI a considerable portion of applicants have secured some form of pre-seed funding that enabled them to carry out some derisking activities.

Y Combinator (2005)

TechStars* (2007)

AngelPad (2010)

500startups (2010)

Seedcamp (2007)

Building Global Innovators (2010)

Startupbootcamp (2010)

OpenFund (2009)

Chinaaccelerator (2010)

SparkLabs (2012)

Startmate Sydney (2011)

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Source: Adapted from the Economist, Special Report “Tech Startups: A Cambrian moment”, Jan. 18

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