Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 5+ years

Education Not specified

Category AI & Machine Learning

About this role

Scale AI is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Data Scientist/Engineer to work with enterprise clients on data science-driven AI deployment problems.

Key Responsibilities

Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand workflows
Turn ambiguous problems into measurable solutions
Build internal and customer-facing data products
End-to-end data pipelines
Design evaluation frameworks

Technical Overview

Fluency in Python and SQL; statistics, experimentation, causal inference; building evaluation tools and data products; end-to-end data pipelines; field deployment for ML/LLM systems.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a 5+ year data scientist/engineer with strong stats, experimentation, and ability to ship data/ML systems, comfortable with Python/SQL and cloud platforms.

Must-Have Skills

5+ years experience in data sciencemachine learningquantitative engineeringor other analytical technical roleProven track record shipping dataMLor AI systemsStrong ability to structure ambiguous problems and define success metricsHands-on fluency in PythonSQLInspect dataprototypedebugproductionize

Nice-to-Have Skills

Graduate degree in CSMLor AICloud experience AWSGCPSnowflakeor BigQueryExperience building evaluation frameworks for LLMsretrieval systemsor agentic workflowsExperience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems like SparkRayor AirflowExperience with enterprise security/governance

Tools & Platforms

PythonSQLAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformSnowflakeBigQuery

Required Skills

PythonSQLstatisticsexperimentationcausal reasoningmeasurementdata ingestiontransformationevaluation frameworksworkflow applicationsdecision-support systems

Hard Skills

PythonSQLstatisticsexperimentationcausal reasoningmeasurementdata ingestiontransformationevaluation frameworksworkflow applicationsdecision-support systemsML modelsAI-assisted development tools

Soft Skills

communicationstakeholder managementproblem solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS

Job Function Design and deploy data science-led products and evaluation tools for enterprise AI deployments

Deal Breakers

5+ years experience, Strong Python/SQL proficiency, Onsite in SF or NY

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