Senior Data Scientist, West

Key Areas of Responsibility (What You’ll Do)

• Scope and co-develop production-level data science projects with our customers across different industries and use cases
• Help users discover and master the Dataiku platform via user training, office hours, and ongoing consultative support
• Provide strategic input to the customer and account teams that help make our customers successful.
• Provide data science expertise both to customers and internally to Dataiku’s sales and marketing teams
• Lead technical data science projects pre-sales scoping and design appealing proposals
• Flag technical and non-technical account risks (onboarding issues, performance pitfalls, timeline slippage)
• Develop custom Python-based “plugins” in collaboration with Solutions, R&D, and Product teams, to enhance Dataiku’s functionality
• Lead Data Scientist engagements: You will coordinate agile sprints, prioritize tasks, estimate effort, do backlog grooming
• Run demo booth/tech talk duties at company public events (e.g. Everyday AI)
• Lead Junior Data Scientist technical interview
• Contribute to 2 internal assets (internal best practice or external blog post/project on the public gallery) per year

Experience (What We’re Looking For)

• Curiosity and a desire to learn new topics and skills
• Empathy for others and an eagerness to share your knowledge and expertise with your colleagues, Dataiku’s customers, and the general public
• The ability to clearly explain complex topics to technical as well as non-technical audiences
• Over 5 years of experience with Python and SQL
• Over 5 years of experience with building ML models and using ML tools (e.g., sklearn)
• Experience with LLMs
• Experience with data visualization and building web apps with Python frameworks (Dash, Streamlit)
• Understanding of underlying data systems such as Cloud architectures and SQL
• Bachelor’s or Master’s program focused on: Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Location: Must be located within the CST, MST, and PST time zones

Bonus points for any of these

• Experience using Dataiku DSS
• Experience with Consulting and/or Customer-facing Data Science roles
• Experience in the Manufacture & Defense sector
• Experience with Data Engineering or MLOps
• Experience developing WebApps in Javascript
• Experience building APIs
• Passion for teaching or public speaking