Sr Principal Data Scientist
TLDR
Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale applied ML and agentic AI systems, shaping standards, mentoring teams, and driving business outcomes across the customer lifecycle.
- Define and lead the technical direction for applied ML and agentic AI systems across the customer lifecycle, including growth, retention, and monetization use cases.
- Architect scalable AI sub-agent systems, including reasoning frameworks, tool use, evaluation methods, guardrails, and production safety mechanisms.
- Establish organization-wide standards for modeling, experimentation, and evaluation, including offline metrics, online testing, and production monitoring.
- Design and deliver high-impact machine learning models and AI systems that directly influence product and business outcomes.
- Drive decisions around data foundations, feature engineering, and knowledge layers while ensuring privacy, governance, and trust.
- Partner with senior leaders across product and engineering to shape roadmap priorities and long-term AI strategy.
- Mentor and guide staff and principal-level data scientists, improving technical rigor, design quality, and execution across the team.
- 12 plus years of experience in applied data science or machine learning, or 14 plus years of total experience, with an advanced degree in a quantitative field preferred.
- Proven track record of leading end-to-end ML initiatives from concept to production with measurable business impact.
- Deep expertise in machine learning techniques including gradient boosting, linear models, deep learning, transformer architectures, embeddings, and contextual bandits.
- Strong understanding of agentic AI systems, including multi-step reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and evaluation frameworks.
- Solid background in causal inference, experimentation design, and statistical methods such as A/B testing, uplift modeling, and quasi-experimental techniques.
- Experience operating large-scale ML systems in production, including pipelines, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining strategies.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using ML and data platforms such as Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, PyTorch, or similar tools.
- Strong business understanding of SaaS metrics such as churn, retention, expansion, ARR, and cohort analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and mentor advanced technical talent in complex organizational environments.
- Strong ability to operate in ambiguous environments, define problems independently, and drive alignment across teams.
- Competitive compensation aligned with senior principal-level responsibilities.
- Performance-based incentives tied to impact and delivery outcomes.
- Flexible work arrangements, including remote and hybrid options.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and employee assistance programs.
- Learning and development support for continuous professional growth.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale AI systems with significant real-world impact.
- Inclusive and collaborative work culture supporting innovation and autonomy.
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
Competitive compensation aligned with senior principal-level responsibilities.
Health Insurance
Comprehensive health, wellness, and employee assistance programs.
Learning Budget
Learning and development support for continuous professional growth.
Inclusive culture
Inclusive and collaborative work culture supporting innovation and autonomy.
Remote-Friendly
Flexible work arrangements, including remote and hybrid options.
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services