SAN FRANCISCO DATA & AI STAFFING
OVERVIEW
We work with some of San Franciscos' leading brands to provide recruitment solutions across the Data & AI industries.
Harnham is committed to helping companies find the best talent for their Data & AI roles in San Francisco, roles including AI Engineers and Architects, as well as machine learning engineers. We do this through our unparalleled customer service throughout the recruitment process.
We provide in-depth guidance during the hiring process in addition to offering insights based on our research on the industry. Our consultants are also well-versed in their markets so they’re able to guide you to the right candidate for your job.
Our Team who specializes in Data & AI Staffing in San Francisco also has an extensive database of Data & AI professionals in the Bay area so we have the best chance to find the best candidate for any role your company has.
DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING
HOW WE DO IT
Just like the Data & AI professionals we place, Harnham use tried and tested models in our recruitment processes.
By gaining valuable market knowledge across a range of industries and regions, Harnham can provide a service that is second to none within our marketplace.
We have seen unprecedented growth in our specialist sector and always have a wide range of vacancies at both junior and senior levels including AI jobs, Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, France, United States, and the Netherlands. For more insight, contact Team Data & AI Staffing San Francisco now.
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER SAN FRANCISCO DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AGENCIES?
We stand out because we have a deep understanding of the Data and AI industry in San Francisco based on our many years of experience.
We also form a tight-knit bond with our clients that makes them want to stick with us long-term.
Also, our recruitment process is tailored to the data & AI industry and the market in San Francisco, and our teams understand the nuances of the industry and are well-versed in their respective markets.
Additionally, we do research and provide insights on things such as salary and diversity within the data industry, with our annual salary and diversity guides which helps guide our clients on hiring decisions. If you need more insight, speak to Team Data & AI Staffing San Francisco now!
JOBS
LATEST SAN FRANCISCO
DATA JOBS
Harnham are a specialist Data & AI Recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.
Staff Data Scientist, Product Analytics
San Francisco
$200000 - $250000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Job Title: Staff Data Scientist
Location: Remote (US Only)
Salary: $200-250k base + equity
About the Company:
Join a mission-focused organization dedicated to revolutionizing global education by providing innovative learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom. The company’s app is widely used across U.S. schools and impacts millions of children worldwide.
Their team is made up of talented and creative professionals with backgrounds in education and top consumer internet companies such as Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, and Uber. They cultivate an environment where top talent can thrive. If you’re eager to work with some of the best minds in the industry, we encourage you to apply!
Position Summary:
As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be a key player in developing the world’s leading consumer education platform. You will be part of a high-achieving, cross-functional team working closely with product, engineering, and design to shape the company’s strategic direction and tackle challenging product and business issues.
Key Responsibilities:
- Utilize data-driven insights to inform decisions and drive our brand toward new milestones
- Work collaboratively with various teams to discover user insights and pinpoint essential product improvements
- Design and analyze AB/multivariate tests to derive actionable conclusions that boost user engagement
- Lead data science projects, influencing strategic choices and addressing complex problems
Your Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in data science and product analytics
- Experience in the consumer technology sector
- Proficient in writing efficient SQL queries for large datasets
- Skilled in designing and analyzing A/B tests
- Strong understanding of growth strategies for consumer products
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strategic thinker with a keen focus on product development
- Innovative approach to using data to drive product strategy

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Staff Finance Data Scientist – Consumption Forecasting
San Francisco
$240000 - $300000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Staff Data Scientist, Finance – Consumption Forecasting
Location: San Francisco or New York | Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Salary: $240-300k base + bonus + equity (RSUs)
This is a rare chance to own forecasting infrastructure at the center of a high-growth, consumption-based developer platform, one that powers some of the world’s most dynamic applications and scales with every developer and enterprise building on it.
As a consumption-based business, forecasting usage across compute, bandwidth, edge, and storage isn’t a support function. It’s foundational to how we plan infrastructure, revenue, and long-term strategy. This role exists to lead that work at the highest level.
What you’ll own
This is a senior individual contributor role with organization-wide impact. You’ll define forecasting methodology, build systems that scale with a rapidly growing platform, and sit at the intersection of Finance, Infrastructure, Product, and GTM with direct visibility to executive leadership.
- Own production revenue forecasting end-to-end: model development, backtesting, deployment, monitoring, and iteration from first principles to live system
- Build forecasting systems that account for usage-based pricing dynamics, consumption patterns, and customer lifecycle across the platform, built for how this business actually works, not retrofitted SaaS models
- Design hierarchical forecasting models across account, cohort, segment, and global aggregate levels, covering operational, quarterly, and long-range planning cycles
- Establish backtesting, monitoring, and explainability standards that make forecast accuracy transparent and defensible
- Build scenario simulation frameworks to evaluate pricing changes, packaging adjustments, and product launches
- Partner with Finance on board-level reporting, with Infrastructure Engineering on capacity planning, and with Product and GTM on adoption curves and usage drivers
- Set forecasting best practices across the broader Data organization
What we’re looking for
- 7+ years in data science, quantitative analytics, or applied statistics at senior or staff level
- Deep expertise in time-series forecasting and statistical modelling in a usage-based or SaaS environment
- Proven track record building and productionizing ML systems at scale
- Strong Python and SQL, with experience on large-scale usage and billing datasets
- Familiarity with probabilistic modelling, hierarchical forecasting, and causal inference
- Experience partnering with Finance or executive leadership on planning cycles
- Comfortable operating autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Nice to have
- Background in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, or consumption-based revenue models
- Familiarity with modern data stacks: Snowflake, Delta Lake, dbt, Airflow
- Prior technical mentorship or informal leadership experience

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Lead AI Engineer
San Francisco
$250000 - $300000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Lead AI Engineer
Location: San Francisco Bay Area | Hybrid
Salary: $250-300k + Equity
Join a well-funded, AI-native startup at the forefront of redefining how digital products are designed and shipped.
This team is building a next-generation design platform where every screen is real, production-ready code. Designers work directly in the medium that ships, not static mockups, with AI deeply embedded into the workflow to accelerate iteration while preserving precision, consistency, and control.
Backed by top-tier Bay Area investors and senior product leaders from companies including Shopify, Notion, Dropbox, Stripe, and OpenAI, the company has strong runway, a high bar for talent, and ambitious plans ahead.
They’re now hiring their first dedicated Lead AI Engineer to own the model layer and drive AI performance across the product.
The Opportunity
You’ll work directly with the CTO and founding team to define and execute the AI strategy at the model level.
This is a hands-on, production-focused AI engineering role centered on:
- Fine-tuning LLMs for real-world use cases
- Optimizing inference speed, cost, and reliability
- Designing and deploying custom Small Language Models (SLMs)
- Establishing evaluation, benchmarking, and observability standards
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Fine-Tuning & Model Strategy
- Own fine-tuning workflows (LoRA, adapters, distillation, full fine-tuning)
- Decide when to fine-tune vs optimize at the system or prompt level
- Iterate models based on production feedback
- Balance quality, latency, and cost tradeoffs
Model Optimization & Performance
- Improve inference speed and throughput
- Reduce cost per request
- Enhance reliability and output consistency
- Define model evaluation and benchmarking frameworks
Custom SLM Development
- Design and train custom SLMs for specific design-to-code workflows
- Identify when smaller models outperform larger ones
- Deploy and maintain real-time, streaming AI systems
- Support multi-step and agentic AI capabilities within the product
What They’re Looking For
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years building with LLMs in production environments
- Proven hands-on fine-tuning experience (LoRA, distillation, adapters, etc.)
- Experience deploying custom or specialized models
- Strong intuition around inference tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript / Node.js
Nice to have:
- ONNX runtime or model optimization tooling
- Experience with orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain)
- WebSockets, Redis, or real-time streaming systems
- Background in AI-native or code-generation products
- A PhD or advanced degree is welcomed, but demonstrated production impact is the priority.

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AI Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $220000
+ Life Science Analytics
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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AI Engineer
San Francisco, California
Remote
$200,000 – $220,000 + Equity
About the Company
This innovative health tech startup is working to improve the oncology drug development process by providing better patient data to drug developers as well as better access to clinical trials for patients. This series B startup is expending to meet demand.
About the Role
As an AI Engineer, you will design and deliver applied AI systems (LLMs/CV/multimodal) that automate clinical variable abstraction and clinical note generation-with repeatable validation, robust documentation, and HITL feedback loops. Heavy emphasis on data engineering and backend rigor to make models usable and efficient.
Role Responsibilities
- Build models and pipelines across EMR/EHR, imaging, clinical reports
- Translate ambiguous clinical requirements into measurable ML objectives
- Define metrics, design experiments, estimate error; review peer work
- Deliver validated AI components for abstraction/note generation; meaningfully reduce manual QA workload via HITL; standardize documentation/testing; establish performant data manipulation patterns (e.g., PySpark, SQL/Postgres) that speed iteration.
Key Requirements
- Python
- Pytorch or Tensorflow
- Data engineering: PySpark, SQL, Postgres, query tuning, data modeling
- Cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, S3/Snowflake/Azure/GCP)
- Nice to have experience in oncology/biotech/health tech

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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco
$160000 - $190000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco, California
Remote
$160,000 – $190,000 + Equity
About the Company
This innovative health tech startup is working to improve the oncology drug development process by providing better patient data to drug developers as well as better access to clinical trials for patients. This series B startup is expending to meet demand.
About the Role
As a Clinical Data Scientist, you’ll execute the last leg of the clinical data pipeline by transforming, cleaning, validating, and delivering high‑quality clinical datasets for pharma partners. Heavy collaboration with Clinical Ops, AI Engineering, and Data Delivery.
Role Responsibilities
- Transform raw, abstracted, and AI‑processed data into CDISC SDTM/ADaM datasets
- Program statistical outputs (tables, listings, figures) in SAS/R/Python
- Investigate data anomalies across multiple messy data inputs
- Define data dictionaries and standards before study kickoff
- Handle data in a HIPAA‑aligned manner
Key Requirements
- 2-5 years in clinical data science, stat programming, or clinical data management
- Pharma/Biotech experience
- SAS, R, Python, SQL
- Real‑world clinical data or oncology trials
- CDISC SDTM/ADaM

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AI Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $250000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Title: AI Engineer
Location: Remote, United States
Compensation: Up to $250,000 + Equity
We’re partnered with a mission-driven healthcare technology company working at the intersection of clinical data and AI. They’re reimagining how complex clinical workflows are automated, with a focus on making high-quality healthcare data more accessible, structured, and actionable. This is a company building something genuinely novel in a space where the stakes are high and the impact is real.
This is a high-impact role where you will lead AI innovation from the ground up. You won’t just be implementing models, you’ll own the full lifecycle of production AI systems, define how clinical data is extracted and structured at scale, and influence the company’s long-term AI direction. The work spans LLMs, computer vision, and mixed-modal approaches in a domain where rigor and accuracy are non-negotiable.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and deploy novel AI/ML systems – with a focus on LLMs and computer vision – to recover, extract, and automate clinical data tasks across diverse data types including medical records, imaging, and clinical reports
- Build robust prototypes and transition them to scalable, near-production-ready code, applying strong software engineering fundamentals throughout
- Design and execute rigorous statistical validation and evaluation frameworks, defining performance metrics and ensuring models meet stakeholder-defined accuracy thresholds
- Own the human-in-the-loop (HITL) lifecycle, ensuring deployed models can continuously improve over time through structured feedback capture
- Partner closely with software engineering to bring proof-of-concept solutions into production, contributing to key architectural decisions along the way
- Proactively identify high-impact AI opportunities across the business and define how advanced capabilities can address them
- Champion best practices for documentation, experimentation, and code quality across the model development lifecycle – and potentially mentor others in doing the same
- Actively evaluate state-of-the-art approaches, bringing innovative ideas and methods to the team
- Apply and uphold healthcare data privacy regulations and ethical standards in all AI development work
Requirements
- MSc or PhD in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related field; BSc with equivalent demonstrated experience also considered
- 2-5+ years of relevant experience in AI/ML engineering or data science, with increasing scope and responsibility over time
- Deep hands-on Python expertise; polyglot coder comfortable across modern programming languages
- Significant experience with at least one deep learning framework (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.) applied to LLMs or computer vision in production contexts
- Proven knowledge of the healthcare data domain in at least one area: EHR/EMR, clinical imaging, clinical workflows, or clinical research
- Extensive experience with modern cloud compute and storage platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.)
- Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, etc.)
- Strong familiarity with SDLC and agile methodologies
- Ability to independently architect end-to-end solutions and clearly communicate how they deliver business value
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – including the ability to present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience with computer vision or multimodal model development
- Background in clinical research, regulated healthcare environments, or medical data pipelines
- Familiarity with EDC systems or clinical trial data infrastructure
- Experience designing or improving HITL feedback systems in production
- Exposure to AI evaluation frameworks or quality assessment tooling
If you’re interested in shaping how AI systems are built, evaluated, and deployed in high-trust environments, this is an opportunity to have direct influence on both technical direction and real-world impact at a fast-growing company.

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Principal Data Scientist
San Francisco
$200000 - $230000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Principal Data Scientist
Remote or Hybrid, United States.
Competitive salary plus bonus and benefits
This is a senior-level opportunity to shape the direction of data science and artificial intelligence within a high-impact, product-focused environment. You will operate as a technical leader, driving complex initiatives from concept through delivery while influencing how advanced analytics and AI capabilities are embedded into end-user experiences.
The Company
They are an established organisation investing heavily in data science and AI to enhance their products and deliver meaningful outcomes at scale. Operating at the intersection of technology, data, and user experience, they bring together cross-functional teams to solve complex problems.
The Role
* Lead the design and delivery of high-impact data science and AI solutions aligned to strategic business objectives
* Provide technical leadership across multiple workstreams, ensuring projects are well-scoped, prioritised, and delivered effectively
* Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define problems and translate them into scalable data solutions
* Develop and implement production-grade machine learning and AI systems, including generative AI capabilities
* Communicate insights, recommendations, and technical concepts clearly to a range of stakeholders
Your Skills & Experience
* Strong expertise in data science, machine learning, or artificial intelligence, demonstrated through academic or industry work
* Proven track record of building and deploying production-scale data and AI systems, including experience with generative AI
* Ability to independently define problems, design solutions, and deliver results end-to-end
* Experience providing technical leadership and guiding cross-functional teams
* Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
What They Offer
* Competitive salary with bonus and comprehensive benefits
* Opportunity to lead strategic AI and data initiatives with real business impact
* Collaborative, cross-functional working environment
* Flexibility through remote or hybrid working
* Clear progression opportunities within a growing data and AI function

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Staff Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $300000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Staff Applied AI Engineer | Bay Area (Hybrid) | $200k-$298k base + equity
I’m partnering with a high-growth SaaS company at the cutting edge of AI and compliance on a senior Applied AI Engineer hire.
This is not a typical “build a model and ship it” role.
This is where you define what good AI looks like – owning how systems retrieve, reason, and deliver trustworthy outputs at scale.
You’ll sit at the intersection of research and real-world impact, shaping the intelligence behind core product features.
‘ :
* Improving RAG systems – retrieval quality, chunking, embeddings, hybrid search
* Designing evaluation frameworks (metrics, golden datasets, regression detection)
* Building and tuning ranking + reranking systems (cross-encoders, LLM rerankers)
* Running experiments to validate what actually improves performance
* Debugging failure modes across retrieval, reasoning, and generation
* Prototyping agent-style workflows over complex, document-heavy data
* Exploring ML approaches beyond GenAI (ranking, classification, probabilistic models)
‘ :
* 8-10+ years in applied ML, data science, or AI research
* Strong experience in information retrieval / search relevance
* Hands-on with RAG systems and retrieval optimization
* Deep understanding of evaluation + experimentation (A/B testing, metrics)
* Python + strong problem-solving / research mindset
* Someone who can explain why systems work (or don’t) – not just build them
:
* You’ve only used LLM APIs without optimizing retrieval or evaluation
* Your experience is purely prompt engineering
* You prefer purely academic research without product impact
* You’re looking for a heavily structured, slow-moving environment
Candidates must be based in the Bay Area and open to a hybrid setup.
If you’re interested in making AI systems measurably better – not just building them, drop me a message or comment below.
Happy to share more details confidentially.
#AIJobs #MachineLearning #RAG #SearchRelevance #LLMs #Hiring #BayAreaJobs #TechJobs

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Senior Ai Engineer, VP
San Francisco
$400000 - $500000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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AI Engineer / Data Engineer (AI Applications & Investment Systems)
Location & Work Environment
- Strong preference for onsite collaboration (4-5 days/week initially)
- Flexible hybrid approach over time, but not a minimal in-office model
- Culture built on trust, ownership, and autonomy – no rigid policies
- Emphasis on:
- Collaboration
- Knowledge sharing
- High-impact problem solving
About the Role
We are building a next-generation data and AI platform to transform how complex business and investment decisions are made.
This role focuses on reimagining traditional workflows using AI, replacing legacy processes built on spreadsheets, slide decks, and manual analysis with intelligent, automated systems.
You will play a critical role in:
- Designing AI-powered workflows
- Building agent-based systems
- Enabling teams to leverage large-scale, fragmented datasets
- Delivering production-grade AI applications
What You’ll Do
- Design and build AI-powered systems to automate and enhance workflows
- Develop and deploy LLM-based applications and agent frameworks
- Translate complex business processes into scalable AI-driven solutions
- Build and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure
- Integrate data across systems (cloud platforms, data warehouses, APIs)
- Identify repetitive workflows and implement automation at scale
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive adoption and impact
- Deliver production-ready solutions, not just prototypes
What We’re Looking For
Experience
- 5-8 years of experience (flexible for strong candidates)
- Strong foundation in software engineering
- Recent experience working with Generative AI / LLM applications
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Strong understanding of:
- System design
- Distributed systems
- Data architecture
- Experience building production-grade AI systems
AI / LLM Expertise
- Hands-on experience with:
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Agent-based systems
- LLM application design and orchestration
- Ability to:
- Choose appropriate models (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
- Design efficient, scalable AI architectures
- Evaluate tradeoffs (cost, latency, performance)
Data & Technology Stack
- Cloud: AWS
- Data: Snowflake, modern ELT tools (e.g., Fivetran)
- AI tools: LLMs (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT)
- CRM & business systems integrations
- Extensive use of AI-assisted development tools
You will work with a wide range of data sources, including:
- Internal operational data
- Third-party datasets and research
- Market and alternative data (e.g., web, labor, and behavioral signals)
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Strong builder mindset with experience in fast-paced environments
- Background in startups, product teams, or platform engineering
- Deep understanding of both:
- Engineering fundamentals
- Practical AI application design
- Strong product intuition – understands how to apply AI to real problems
- Comfortable making independent decisions in ambiguous environments
Soft Skills
- Entrepreneurial and self-driven
- Strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders
- Able to operate with high autonomy and minimal oversight
- Curious, pragmatic, and execution-focused
⏰ Working Style
- Flexible hours; not a strict 9-5 role
- Must be comfortable collaborating across time zones
- Occasional flexibility required for high-priority needs
Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive total cash compensation (performance-driven bonus included)
- Comprehensive benefits package:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness benefits
- Retirement plan (401k)
- Generous PTO
⚡ Interview Process
- Streamlined, fast-moving process
- Focus on:
- Systems thinking
- Practical problem-solving
- AI application design
- No coding tests – emphasis on real-world approach and decision-making
Why This Role?
- Opportunity to transform how complex workflows are done using AI
- Work on high-impact, real-world AI applications
- Operate in a high-autonomy, builder-focused environment
- Be part of a small, elite team driving meaningful innovation
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Director
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Employment Type
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- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Staff Product Data Scientist
$190000 - $220000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentCalifornia
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Staff Data Scientist (Product)
Location: Remote
Salary: $190-220k
We’re partnering with a fast-growing SaaS company to find a Staff Data Scientist for a senior, high-visibility role embedded in their product organization. This is for someone who combines deep statistical expertise with the ability to influence how an entire company makes decisions – not just someone who runs experiments, but someone who builds the culture and infrastructure around them.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Owning and advancing the company’s experimentation roadmap, focused on high-leverage product questions around customer workflows, churn risk, and long-term value
- Designing and analyzing complex A/B tests, multivariate experiments, and Bayesian methods to measure the real impact of product changes
- Applying causal inference techniques (DiD, synthetic control, propensity score matching, instrumental variables) where traditional RCTs aren’t feasible
- Building and governing a unified KPI framework that connects product health metrics to meaningful business outcomes
- Partnering with Data Engineering to build scalable, self-serve experimentation tooling and reusable analytical frameworks
- Translating complex statistical findings into clear, compelling narratives for VP and C-suite audiences
- Mentoring and training junior and mid-level data scientists on experimental design and causal modeling
What We’re Looking For
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Product Data, acting as a strategic thought partner across Product, Engineering, Finance, Design, and Product Marketing. The company is at an inflection point in how it uses data to make product decisions, and this person will be central to shaping that.
Essential:
- 6+ years in applied data science, economics, or product analytics
- Proven expertise in causal inference: DiD, PSM, instrumental variables, quasi-experimentation
- Deep experience in A/B testing methodology including sequential testing, CUPED, variance reduction, and network effects
- Advanced SQL and Python or R for statistical modeling
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses
- Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to drive change in organizations where experimentation culture is still developing
Nice to have:
- Experience with dbt, Airflow, or Databricks
- Background in SaaS and product data science

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Staff GTM Data Scientist
$190000 - $220000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentCalifornia
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Staff GTM Data Scientist
Location: Remote
Salary: $190-220k base
We’re partnering with a fast-growing SaaS company to find a Staff Data Scientist for a senior, high-visibility role sitting at the heart of their product and go-to-market strategy. This isn’t a reporting role or a dashboard-builder position. It’s for someone who can drive a genuine shift toward data-driven decision making across the organization, and who has the technical depth and communication skills to bring leadership along with them.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Owning and advancing the company’s experimentation roadmap, focusing on high-leverage questions around customer workflows, churn risk, and long-term value
- Designing and analyzing complex A/B tests, multivariate experiments, and Bayesian methods to assess the real impact of product and business changes
- Applying causal inference techniques (DiD, synthetic control, propensity score matching, instrumental variables) where traditional RCTs aren’t feasible
- Building and governing a unified KPI framework that connects product health metrics to business outcomes
- Partnering with Data Engineering to build scalable, self-serve experimentation tooling and reusable analytical frameworks
- Translating complex statistical findings into clear, compelling narratives for VP and C-suite audiences
- Mentoring and training junior and mid-level data scientists on experimental design and causal modeling
What We’re Looking For
This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Director of GTM Data, acting as a strategic thought partner across Product, Marketing, Finance, and Engineering. The company is at an inflection point in how it uses data, and this person will be central to shaping that.
Essential:
- 6+ years in applied data science, economics, or product analytics
- Proven expertise in causal inference: DiD, PSM, instrumental variables, quasi-experimentation
- Deep experience in A/B testing methodology including sequential testing, CUPED, variance reduction, and network effects
- Advanced SQL and Python or R for statistical modeling
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses
- Exceptional communication skills, comfortable presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to drive change in organizations where experimentation culture is still maturing
Nice to have:
- Experience with dbt, Airflow, or Databricks
- Background in SaaS and product data science

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Vice President, AI / Machine Learning Engineering
Palo Alto
$200000 - $300000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentPalo Alto, California
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Vice President, AI / Machine Learning Engineering
We’re partnering with a highly regarded AI team building products used by hundreds of thousands of users every day.
This is not a research role. They’re looking for engineers who can take an idea on Thursday and have a production-ready solution in users’ hands by Monday.
The team is building AI-powered products across:
- Enterprise chatbots and conversational AI
- Agent frameworks and workflow automation
- Text-to-code applications
- Natural language interfaces for databases
- Internal AI productivity tools at massive scale
They’re looking for engineers with:
- Strong AI/ML engineering experience
- Deep understanding of LLMs and foundation models
- Experience building applications with LLM APIs
- AWS, Kubernetes and distributed systems experience
- Strong software engineering and system design fundamentals
- The ability to operate autonomously and deliver end-to-end solutions
Ideal candidates are full-stack ML engineers who can prototype, build, deploy and scale products independently. A background in NLP, Computer Vision or advanced AI research is highly valued, but the ability to ship production systems is what matters most.
Why Join?
- Build AI products used by hundreds of thousands of users globally
- Work on some of the most visible AI initiatives within the organization
- Operate with significant autonomy and ownership
- Partner directly with senior leadership on high-priority initiatives
- See your work deployed at scale and delivering measurable impact from day one
- Join a team of exceptional engineers focused on turning cutting-edge AI into production-ready products

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