What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Hut 8?
About Hut 8
Imagine the ultimate destination for those who want to work at the cutting edge of technology, energy, and infrastructure. Hut 8 is on a mission to build and operate some of the world’s largest data centers for next-generation computing workloads, including AI, Colocation, Cloud, and Bitcoin Mining. We are proud to offer interesting and challenging opportunities for individuals who want to build teams, solve problems, and make an impact from day one. If you’re an ambitious individual looking for a career that is as rewarding as it is challenging, you’ve come to the right place.
About The Role
This role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What Makes Hut 8 a Great Place To Work
Hut 8 offers a benefits and wellness program that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off. We are proud to invest in building the best team in the industry. At all levels of the organization, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, radical transparency, and relentless growth mentality.
At Hut 8, You Will Have The Opportunity To
▶ Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgrounds including software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment banking, private equity, and management consulting
▶ Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives and backed by a board of directors consisting of industry veterans of energy, finance, and government
▶ Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve is steep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team
▶ Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edge intersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure
Imagine the ultimate destination for those who want to work at the cutting edge of technology, energy, and infrastructure. Hut 8 is on a mission to build and operate some of the world’s largest data centers for next-generation computing workloads, including AI, Colocation, Cloud, and Bitcoin Mining. We are proud to offer interesting and challenging opportunities for individuals who want to build teams, solve problems, and make an impact from day one. If you’re an ambitious individual looking for a career that is as rewarding as it is challenging, you’ve come to the right place.
About The Role
- Own or contribute to the enterprise data inventory, including priority systems, data owners, business definitions, lineage, dependencies, and quality gaps.
- Translate business processes and stakeholder needs into data requirements, source mappings, data models, quality rules, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Partner with Data Operations and Software Engineering to improve ingestion, transformation, integration, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Prepare and maintain enterprise data for agentic workflows by supporting semantic layers, knowledge bases, metadata, retrieval indexes, data contracts, access controls, and evaluation datasets.
- Apply data science and analytical methods to develop reusable models, reports, dashboards, and decision-support products.
- Monitor the reliability and usefulness of data products and agentic workflows, using quality findings and user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Communicate data limitations, recommendations, and business impact clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in data science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 6 years of experience in data science, enterprise data management, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience working with relational databases, data warehouses, and ETL/ELT processes.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake or BigQuery, data modeling, data quality, and lineage concepts.
- Understanding of machine learning and AI concepts, including large language models, natural language processing, retrieval-augmented generation, and intelligent agents.
- Strong ability to connect business processes to data structures, analytical outputs, and practical implementation plans.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.
- Experience with semantic layers, ontologies, metadata management, knowledge bases, embeddings, agent evaluation, Airflow or Luigi, Tableau, Metabase, Git, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure is preferred.
This role is in office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami, Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What Makes Hut 8 a Great Place To Work
Hut 8 offers a benefits and wellness program that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off. We are proud to invest in building the best team in the industry. At all levels of the organization, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, radical transparency, and relentless growth mentality.
At Hut 8, You Will Have The Opportunity To
▶ Work with bright, driven peers from a range of educational and professional backgrounds including software development, energy, engineering, entrepreneurship, investment banking, private equity, and management consulting
▶ Design and pitch new products, services, and other initiatives to a leadership team consisting of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned executives and backed by a board of directors consisting of industry veterans of energy, finance, and government
▶ Debate ideas and alternatives in a truly meritocratic setting where the learning curve is steep and the lessons come from both senior and junior members of the team
▶ Build a lifelong network of friends and professional connections at the cutting-edge intersection of technology, energy, and infrastructure