Scale is looking for a data scientist to join our team to help advance the development of AI. As a member of the data science team, you will lead the charge of building our data science infrastructure for Gen AI products and driving insights that lead to step-function improvements in how we operate. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, rigorous about validating results, talented at distilling down complexity, and loves tackling and solving hard problems.
You will:

• Build evaluation frameworks to measure LLMs efficacy, ground truth dataset quality, and guide product development roadmap
• Adapt statistical models to solve specific hard problems in fields of economics, price theory, and marketplace experimentation
• Be a proactive partner to your business stakeholders and provide insights and conclusions rather than just data outputs/models
• Tackle business-critical questions by developing and testing hypotheses, and aiding evidence-based decision making
• Partner with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Business Stakeholders to drive business decisions and product roadmaps

Ideally, You'd Have:

• 5 years of industry experience in a highly analytical role
• Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Maths, Engineering)
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Experience with marketplace experimentation
• Expert-level proficiency in writing complex SQL queries across large datasets
• Expertise in designing metrics and diagnosing data inconsistencies

Please note that in order to maintain integrity to our Scale titling philosophy, we do not internally use titles such as "senior," but have levels to reflect seniority. Our Talent Acquisition team works closely with our employees to provide them the opportunity to grow their careers and demonstrate the scope of work in other ways aside from job titles. If you have further questions, please direct them to your recruiter and/or hiring manager, who can provide more insight.
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The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:
$172,000-$225,000 USD
About Us:
At Scale, we believe that the transition from traditional software to AI is one of the most important shifts of our time. Our mission is to make that happen faster across every industry, and our team is transforming how organizations build and deploy AI. Our products power the world's most advanced LLMs, generative models, and computer vision models. We are trusted by generative AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft, government agencies like the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, and enterprises including GM and Accenture. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
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