Staff Data Scientist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +44 more states.

📋 Description

• Direct the technical strategy and hands-on execution of one or two key applied machine learning or data science projects.

• Convert business opportunities into decision-making frameworks, technical strategies, success metrics, and plans for adoption and impact evaluation.

• Develop and manage complete end-to-end machine learning systems, encompassing data and feature pipelines, training and evaluation, batch or real-time inference, deployment, monitoring, failure management, and iterative improvements.

• Contribute to forecasting, demand and price elasticity estimation, causal analysis, and optimization efforts for pricing and revenue decisions.

• Design and evaluate experiments and quasi-experiments.

• Establish reusable standards for testing, reproducibility, version control, observability, documentation, and responsible model operation.

• Review designs and code across the team.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Engineering, Revenue Management, and business stakeholders.

• Embed models into products and operational workflows.

• Mentor data scientists and enhance the team’s technical capabilities.

• Report to the head of Data Product.

⛳️ Requirements

• Typically 6+ years of experience in applying data science, statistics, econometrics, or machine learning to significant business challenges.

• Staff-level experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional data science or machine learning initiatives from conception to ongoing production use.

• Proficient in Python and SQL.

• Capable of writing tested, maintainable production code and working effectively with large datasets.

• Experience managing production machine learning systems, including deployment, scoring, monitoring, failure management, operational support, and post-launch iteration.

• Strong judgment in applied statistics and model evaluation.

• Fundamentals in experimentation or causal inference.

• Ability to contribute to economic or optimization analysis.

• Skill in linking technical decisions to business outcomes and clearly communicating trade-offs.

• Self-motivated, collaborative work style; ability to prioritize tasks, provide and accept direct feedback, influence without formal authority, and maintain a hands-on approach in a lean, remote team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity in the company.

• 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match.

• 16–18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.

• Infertility coverage.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.

• 100% employer-paid dental and vision for individual coverage.

• Low-cost medical option.

• 10 free mental health visits.

• Pet insurance.

• Generous paid time off (PTO).

• Remote work opportunities (for full-time exempt employees).

• Sick leave.

• Holiday pay.

• Personal holiday.

• Annual travel credit after one year of employment.

• Discounts on stays at all Evolve properties.

• World-class onboarding programs.

• Learning and development resources.

• Employee Resource Groups.