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Data Scientist

Data ScientistData ScientistFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2023H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

47 days ago

Salary

$130K - $180K / year

Bachelor DegreeEnglishPythonSQL

Job Description

• Design, prototype, and productionize models/algorithms for retrieval, ranking, and relevance quality across web and AI-assisted surfaces. • Build NLP pipelines (classification, entity extraction, topic modeling, sentiment analysis) and validate them with clear offline + online metrics. • Own measurement and experimentation: hypotheses, experiment design, guardrails, and readouts that drive decisions. • Develop simulation / modeling frameworks to forecast outcomes, test policies, and stress-test system behavior under different assumptions. • Contribute to knowledge graph / semantic web work: schema design, entity resolution, and downstream ML / GenAI applications. • Translate technical work into crisp narratives for stakeholders (product tradeoffs, confidence, limitations, and next steps). • Contribute to external thought leadership where it makes sense (blog posts, talks, papers).

Job Requirements

Strong foundations in statistics, experimental design, and model evaluation.
Hands-on experience with information retrieval / ranking / search relevance, ideally in AI-augmented contexts.
Experience building and evaluating NLP models in production or research settings
Proficiency in Python and SQL
Strong communication: you can explain what you did, why it matters, and how confident you are, without hand-waving.
Deep comfort with the web as a system (crawl/index realities, domains, content structure, measurement constraints).
Experience working with non-representative data and making results more trustworthy through sampling-aware analysis (bias checks, adjustments, uncertainty).
Work with noisy/partial labels, long-tailed queries, drifting content, and evaluation that mixes offline + online signals