Principal Data Scientist (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Scrunch AI is an early leader in the emerging category of helping businesses understand and optimize their customer journey for the AI era. They are seeking a data science & AI leader who can build teams and cultures while directly creating analyses, models, prototypes, and AI systems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and with cross-functional teams and even customers to understand where adding intelligence to the product can help them – and where current AI / ML-based systems might not be

• Run analyses and experiments to inform your own work and the work of the entire company

• Be hands on writing code – in notebooks or even in production – to test new models, prompts, and systems

• Mentor AI & data engineers to be more effective at working with AI/ML systems – better analysts, more rigorous experimenters, and with more tools in their toolbelt.

• Collaborate with our CTO, CEO, and marketing teams to create analyses, reports, posts & videos that help advance the ecosystem's understanding of AI and how to evolve to meet the rapidly changing business environment AI is driving – for technical practitioners, marketers and customer experience professionals, and high-level executives.

• Look at a lot of data 🙂

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experiencing building meaningful ML/AI-powered systems, like recommenders, classifiers, sophisticated information retrieval or ranking systems, etc. from zero to one (at a startup or inside an existing enterprise.)

• Experience leading teams — whether large or small – of researchers, data scientists, or AI/ML engineers – in a fast-paced environment. (This will initially be an IC role, but we are growing quickly.)

• Excellent analytical skills and familiarity with modern analysis tools, using SQL on CDWs (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, Clickhouse), cloud-based notebook computing, pandas or polars, and more.

• Experience building AI systems using LLMs, VLMs, or smaller transformer-based models – in a rigorous way, starting with looking at the data! But ideally moving on to building eval suites and setting up ongoing performance monitoring.

• A scientific, but pragmatic approach to experimentation and analysis – we care deeply about delivering value to our customers; sometimes that means shipping a V1 that isn't perfect so we can get the data to ship a V2 that nails it.

Preferred:

• Experience with, and a nuanced appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of, modern consumer/prosumer AI chatbots, search tools and agents a plus

Company:

Scrunch AI is the leading platform for helping brands gain visibility in AI search results. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in , with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.