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Join Grindr as a Staff Data Scientist in a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Chicago offices, requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Why This Role is Unique?Grindr (NYSE: GRND) is the world’s largest LGBTQ+ social application, boasting over 14 million monthly users globally. We are not just a platform but a vital part of the LGBTQ+ community and a cornerstone of gay culture.As a Staff Data Scientist, you will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to create insightful metrics that drive product development. You will design and implement innovative experiments, present data-driven insights for decision-making, and explore new growth strategies through comprehensive analysis. This role allows you to work on deployed models that enhance the user experience for millions, while becoming an informal ambassador for the Data Science team, educating others on effective data utilization.You will be part of a dynamic data organization at Grindr that integrates data scientists, data engineers, and ML/AI engineers into a united and collaborative team. This is a unique opportunity to learn, share knowledge, and make a significant impact alongside industry leaders.Your ResponsibilitiesExtract actionable insights from complex, open-ended queries.Design and assess experiments to evaluate the impact of product changes.Analyze product data to identify root causes behind metric fluctuations.Effectively communicate findings to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product strategies.Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, enhancing company productivity.Mentor and guide team members, recommending best practices.Apply an engineering mindset to reduce complexity while maximizing utility and maintainability.Contribute to the development of future ML solutions to enhance recommendations, detect spam, and better serve our users.

This is a hybrid position based in our Bay Area (SF or Palo Alto) or Chicago offices, requiring in-office attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Why Join Us?At Grindr, we believe AI has the potential to transform the dating landscape. As a Staff MLOps Engineer, you will be pivotal in developing and managing the infrastructure, tools, and scalable systems that empower impactful AI initiatives. You will architect and maintain the platforms facilitating data ingestion, feature computation, model training, automated evaluation, deployment, and continuous monitoring for our machine learning teams that craft recommendations, LLM-powered experiences, advertisements, visual searches, as well as growth, trust, and safety mechanisms. Your role will involve designing foundational systems that enable our ML engineers to innovate swiftly, deploy models reliably, and manage them confidently in production.What You Will Do:We are seeking an exceptional MLOps engineer passionate about enabling ML at scale, with experience handling over 6 million daily active users and hundreds of millions of daily interactions. You will thrive in building robust, automated pipelines, developing reliable production training and inference systems, and establishing the infrastructure and processes that enhance ML product development across our organization.In this role, you will define and implement the strategy for Grindr’s ML platform and oversee the end-to-end model lifecycle.Key Responsibilities:Construct and oversee end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature computation, model training, validation, deployment, and inference, all while managing substantial data scales.Establish and oversee a feature store, ensuring feature consistency, lineage, and reuse across teams.Utilize top-tier tools for managing deployment, scheduling, and environments within the specialized realm of ML Infrastructure.Develop automated model deployment workflows that incorporate CI/CD, secure rollout strategies, and reproducibility guarantees.Implement monitoring and observability solutions for ML systems, covering data quality checks, drift detection, performance metrics, and alerting mechanisms.Support and build training environments featuring experiment tracking, distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, and artifact and environment management.Collaborate with ML engineers and data engineers to streamline workflows, enhance model iteration speed, and enforce MLOps best practices.

At Databricks, our passion lies in empowering data teams to tackle some of the most challenging problems globally, from detecting security threats to advancing cancer drug development. We achieve this by creating and operating the world's premier Data Intelligence Platform, enabling our customers to concentrate on high-value challenges central to their missions. Founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks has evolved from a small office in Berkeley, California, into a global powerhouse with over 1000 employees. We are trusted by thousands of organizations—from small startups to Fortune 100 companies—with their mission-critical workloads, establishing us as one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide. Our engineering teams are dedicated to developing highly technical products that address real-world needs. We continuously push the limits of data and AI technology while maintaining the resilience, security, and scalability crucial for our customers' success on our platform. Operating one of the largest-scale software platforms, our infrastructure comprises millions of virtual machines that generate terabytes of logs and process exabytes of data daily. At this scale, we routinely encounter cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software is designed to shield our customers from such issues effectively. As a Data Scientist on the Data Team, you will play a pivotal role in fostering a data-driven culture within Databricks by addressing product and business challenges. The Data Team serves as an internal, production 'customer' that utilizes Databricks and influences the future trajectory of our products. Your Impact: Steer the direction of key data science initiatives including segmentation, recommendation systems, forecasting, product analytics, churn prediction, and insights. Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales, and Customer Success to discern product usage patterns and trends, facilitating data-driven decisions, recommendations, and forecasts. Manage stakeholder expectations in your focus area—gather evolving requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and effectively communicate progress and results to non-technical audiences. Mentor and support junior data scientists within the team, assisting with project planning, technical decisions, and conducting code and documentation reviews. Advocate for the data science discipline across the organization, amplifying our commitment to becoming more data-driven. Develop self-service internal data products to simplify data access within the company. Represent Databricks at academic and industry conferences and events.

Grindr is an AI-driven platform connecting millions of gay people worldwide. With over 15 million users monthly and more than 130 billion messages exchanged each year, the team addresses technical and regulatory challenges at a significant scale. Fewer than 200 employees keep operations agile and thoughtful. Role overview The Health Regulatory Counsel will help shape Grindr's expanding health business. This position provides guidance on health regulatory issues, compliance, product development, and privacy matters. Acting as a key advisor, the counsel works closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to support high-impact decisions. Work culture Grindr emphasizes a balanced approach: maintaining high standards while respecting personal well-being. The company values outcomes, encourages smart collaboration, and supports a full life outside the office. Location and schedule This hybrid role requires in-person attendance on Tuesdays and Thursdays at one of these offices: San Francisco New York City Los Angeles

Join Windfall, a pioneering people data and AI company, where data science is at the heart of our mission. We are dedicated to transforming how organizations understand and leverage people data by equipping leading commercial and nonprofit partners with precise, actionable predictive models.We are seeking a product-focused Senior or Staff Data Scientist to be part of our Modeling & AI team. In this pivotal role, you will directly influence customer success by developing custom propensity models that tackle our clients' most pressing challenges. Collaborating closely with customer data and Windfall's extensive data resources, you will craft innovative solutions and create comprehensive modeling pipelines that convert data into tangible value.This position offers a unique chance to witness your contributions in action, working hand-in-hand with our clients to develop a range of models, from sophisticated marketing and lead scoring to donation likelihood models that enhance the missions of the world's leading nonprofit organizations.

About SemgrepSemgrep stands at the forefront of code security, empowering developers to innovate seamlessly. Our platform enables teams to identify, flag, and resolve genuine security issues before deployment, supported by an adaptive security system that evolves with their development process. Semgrep not only safeguards code in real-time but also offers essential guardrails that facilitate rapid development without compromising security. Trusted by top organizations like Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma, we are recognized by Gartner for excellence in Application Security Testing. To learn more about our mission, visit semgrep.dev.Founded in San Francisco and backed by prominent investors including Menlo Ventures and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is dedicated to continuous improvement, ensuring that our AI-driven system minimizes false positives and prioritizes actionable vulnerabilities. Experience the future of secure coding with us.

Join SoFi, a leading personal finance company, as a Data Scientist where you will leverage data to drive strategic decisions and enhance user experiences. In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, build predictive models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to propel our innovative solutions forward.

Join Mercor as a Data ScientistAt Mercor, we stand at the forefront of labor markets and artificial intelligence research. We collaborate with top-tier AI laboratories and businesses to infuse the human intelligence crucial for the evolution of AI.Our expansive talent network empowers frontier AI models, mirroring the way educators impart knowledge: sharing insights and experiences that transcend mere coding. Currently, our network boasts over 30,000 experts generating more than $2 million daily.We are pioneering a new work paradigm where specialized expertise drives AI progress. To realize this vision, we seek a dynamic, fast-paced, and dedicated team. You will collaborate with leading researchers, operators, and AI companies, playing a pivotal role in the systems that are reshaping society.As a profitable Series C company, Mercor is valued at $10 billion and operates from our new headquarters in San Francisco with an in-office work schedule five days a week.Your RoleIn your first year, you will implement analyses and experiments that enhance key product metrics, including match quality, time-to-hire, candidate experience, and revenue. Your responsibilities will include:Establishing north-star and feature-specific metrics for our ranking systems, interview analytics, and payout frameworks.Designing and executing A/B tests and quasi-experiments, translating results into product decisions within the same week.Creating source-of-truth dashboards and streamlined data models to enable teams to self-serve answers.Collaborating with engineers to instrument events, enhancing data quality and latency from ingestion to insights.Rapidly prototyping models (from baseline models to gradient boosting) to optimize matching and scoring.Assisting in the evaluation of LLM-powered agents through the design of rubrics, human-in-the-loop studies, and guardrail mechanisms.What Makes You a Great FitYou possess strong foundational skills in statistics, SQL, and Python, alongside projects you are eager to showcase. You adapt swiftly, frame inquiries, test hypotheses, and deliver results within a day, valuing clarity in communication as much as statistical significance. A keen interest in LLM evaluation, retrieval, and ranking is a plus; you will learn alongside professionals from renowned firms such as Jane Street, Citadel, Databricks, and Stripe.

Superhuman offers an engaging hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach provides team members with a balance of focused time and in-person collaboration, fostering trust, innovation, and a vibrant team culture. Team members for this position must reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. About SuperhumanSuperhuman, now part of Grammarly, is an AI productivity platform dedicated to unlocking extraordinary potential in everyone. Our suite of apps and agents seamlessly integrates AI into over 1 million applications and websites, including Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that comprehends context and provides automatic assistance. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers more than 40 million individuals, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and concentrate on what truly matters. Discover more at superhuman.com and explore our values here.The OpportunityTo achieve our ambitious goals, we are seeking skilled Data Scientists to join our Product and Growth Data Science teams. At Superhuman, data teams are regarded as trusted experts who reveal new insights to shape marketing, product, and growth strategies that drive significant outcomes across the organization. We have access to large datasets and are looking for individuals with exceptional technical and analytical abilities who can dissect complex business challenges and offer solutions that deliver high visibility and impactful results for the company.Growth Data Scientists collaborate closely with product, engineering, growth, and/or lifecycle marketing teams. They are tasked with designing and executing product experiments, as well as performing intricate analyses to guide product strategy through advanced analytics and machine learning. The ideal candidate will possess a proven record of delivering significant analytical projects within the Growth domain and working alongside cross-functional colleagues to influence decision-making.Product Data Scientists are responsible for assessing the quality of the Superhuman products, ensuring that our offerings are not only innovative but also user-friendly and effective.

Join Mixpanel as a Data Scientist and contribute to our mission of helping businesses make data-driven decisions. In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, develop predictive models, and provide actionable insights to enhance our product offerings.

Join Metriport as a Data Scientist and be at the forefront of data-driven decision making! In this role, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to derive insights from complex datasets, enhancing our product offerings and driving strategic initiatives.

Join Aircall, the leading integrated customer communications and intelligence platform that empowers growing businesses worldwide. With a trusted network of over 20,000 companies, Aircall seamlessly integrates voice and digital channels into one powerful platform, featuring one-click connections with top CRMs and over 100 essential business tools. Our AI-driven insights and automation capabilities enable sales and support teams to optimize their time, discover new opportunities, and deliver outstanding customer experiences. With a diverse global team of over 600 in cities such as Paris, New York, San Francisco, and more, Aircall is revolutionizing the way businesses engage with their customers, fostering deeper relationships and driving measurable success.Our Work Culture: At Aircall, we prioritize customer satisfaction, continuous learning, and extraordinary results. We encourage open collaboration, ownership, and swift, informed decision-making. If you thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment where curiosity, trust, and impact are key, you will fit right in.About Our TeamThe Data team at Aircall is integral to our decision-making process, driving innovation and growth through advanced data solutions, tools, and actionable insights.Role OverviewAs a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in providing insights to our product and business teams, collaborating closely with product and engineering leaders. You will support key initiatives such as pricing strategies, packaging, multi-product approaches, and self-service solutions. Additionally, you will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Relations to translate data requirements into impactful solutions. Your contributions will also include establishing best practices in analytics and mentoring team members to uphold high standards in data governance and insight generation.

Sciforium is an innovative AI infrastructure company specializing in the development of state-of-the-art multimodal AI models, alongside a proprietary high-efficiency serving platform. With substantial financial backing and direct collaboration with AMD, including hands-on support from AMD engineers, our rapidly growing team is dedicated to building the comprehensive stack that powers cutting-edge AI models and real-time applications.Role OverviewWe are on the lookout for a highly skilled and visionary Data Scientist to spearhead the strategy and creation of vast datasets essential for our foundational models. In the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs), we recognize that data is the key competitive advantage. This role will encompass the entire data lifecycle—from extensive web-scale crawling to the meticulous creation of human-aligned datasets that dictate model behavior.The ideal candidate will embrace data as both a large-scale engineering challenge and a complex analytical puzzle. Your responsibilities will extend beyond simply delivering data; you will design taxonomies, filtering heuristics, and post-training pipelines to ensure our models excel in reasoning, safety, and multimodal comprehension.Key ResponsibilitiesFoundation Dataset Strategy: Oversee the comprehensive creation of pre-training datasets for LLMs, defining the optimal mix of web data, code, literature, and technical documents to enhance downstream model performance.Petabyte-Scale Curation: Innovate and implement advanced pipelines for data cleaning, deduplication (exact and fuzzy), and high-quality signal extraction from vast amounts of unstructured data.Post-Training & Alignment Data: Direct the creation of high-quality post-training datasets, including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) instructions, multi-turn dialogues, and preference modeling data (RLHF/DPO).Multimodal Expansion: Lead the acquisition and processing of vision and video data, addressing the challenges of multimodal alignment, video compression, and temporal data consistency.High-Performance Engineering: Create high-throughput data processing scripts utilizing Python, employing multiprocessing and multithreading to manage large-scale ingestion and transformation without performance bottlenecks.Data Profiling & Analysis: Perform in-depth statistical analysis on training datasets to uncover biases, knowledge gaps, and quality regressions, ensuring a mathematically balanced model diet.Synthetic Data Generation: (Added Value) Develop pipelines to generate high-quality synthetic datasets that enhance model training and capabilities.

At Superhuman, we embrace a vibrant hybrid working model that combines focused work time with essential in-person collaboration, cultivating trust, innovation, and a robust team culture.Our Data Scientists must be located in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City.About SuperhumanSuperhuman is an AI productivity platform aiming to unlock the superhuman potential inherent in everyone. With a suite of applications and agents, Superhuman integrates seamlessly with over 1 million applications and websites, delivering advanced tools including Grammarly's writing assistance, Coda's collaborative workspaces, Mail's inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that responds to context and offers assistance automatically. Since our founding in 2009, we have empowered over 40 million individuals, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions globally to eliminate mundane tasks and focus on what truly matters. Discover more at superhuman.com and explore our values here.The OpportunityTo fulfill our ambitious objectives, we are seeking accomplished Data Scientists to join our Product and Growth Data Science teams. Data teams at Superhuman are trusted experts who reveal new insights to guide marketing, product, and growth strategies that yield significant outcomes for the company. We manage extensive datasets and are looking for individuals with exceptional technical and analytical capabilities to dissect complex business challenges and provide impactful solutions.Growth Data Scientists work closely with product, engineering, growth, and lifecycle marketing teams. They are responsible for designing and executing product experiments and performing intricate analyses to shape product strategies through advanced analytics and machine learning. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proven history of delivering significant analytical projects in the Growth sector and collaborating effectively with cross-functional peers to influence decision-making.Product Data Scientists focus on assessing the quality of Superhuman products across the board, evaluating everything from the usefulness and accuracy of text suggestions to the engagement of new AI features.

About AirwallexAirwallex stands as the premier unified payments and financial platform tailored for global enterprises. Our unique blend of proprietary infrastructure and advanced software empowers over 200,000 businesses across the globe, including notable names such as Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. We offer fully integrated solutions for managing everything from business accounts and payments to spend management, treasury services, and embedded finance on a global scale.Founded in Melbourne with a dynamic workforce of over 2,000 innovative professionals across 26 global offices, Airwallex is valued at $8 billion. We are backed by leading investors such as T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, positioning us at the forefront of creating the future of global payments and financial services. If you are ready to embark on the most ambitious journey of your career, we invite you to join us.Attributes We ValueWe seek builders with an entrepreneurial spirit who aspire for real impact, accelerated growth, and genuine ownership. You bring deep expertise and analytical thinking, driven by our mission and operating principles. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating curiosity and making decisions based on foundational principles while balancing speed with thoroughness.With a humble and collaborative approach, you transform innovative ideas into tangible products and ensure projects are completed from start to finish. Leveraging AI, you work efficiently and solve problems quickly. Here, you will tackle complex, high-impact challenges alongside exceptional teammates and advance your career as we redefine the future of global banking. If this resonates with you, let's innovate together.Growth Data Science TeamThe Growth Data Science team is at the heart of Airwallex’s growth strategy, leveraging data and AI to create a sustainable competitive edge. We design and implement advanced solutions encompassing predictive modeling, personalization, LLM-powered systems, incentive optimization, and causal inference to drive significant growth throughout the customer journey.Discover more about our data science team in this blog.The RoleWe are on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to collaborate closely with our Growth and Marketing teams. Your role will involve designing, deploying, and refining impactful data science initiatives that drive our growth objectives.

At Perplexity, we embody the future of AI, bringing transformative solutions to people who demand more. Our data team is at the forefront of this revolution, strategically integrating AI into every facet of our operations.We seek a passionate individual with a strong background as a data scientist, analytics engineer, or data engineer. You understand the significance of key metrics, can expertly design A/B tests that address core questions, dive deep into data models to solve discrepancies, and are eager to take on the challenge of building AI systems that will revolutionize the data science landscape.This is not just another text-to-SQL bot or a simple dashboard. You will create AI agents capable of conducting comprehensive analyses autonomously, from hypothesis formation and query execution to result interpretation and actionable recommendations. Your work will ensure that our entire data warehouse is accessible to AI systems, enabling precise queries across the board. You will develop self-healing data pipelines that proactively identify and resolve issues before they disrupt workflows. In doing so, you will empower our small data team to operate with the efficiency and output of a much larger organization.Join a forward-thinking data team that is already leveraging AI to enhance its processes, with full support from leadership to expand these efforts. Together, we will build a world-class team focused on creating scalable systems, innovative tools, and an AI-centric working environment that not only elevates our standards but also drives the entire industry forward.

Join our dynamic team at tempo-xyz as a Data Scientist, where you'll harness the power of data to drive impactful insights and strategic decision-making. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze complex datasets, develop predictive models, and communicate findings to stakeholders. This is an excellent opportunity for innovative thinkers eager to make a difference through data-driven solutions.

About SentryAt Sentry, we believe that bad software shouldn't be the norm. Our mission is to empower developers to create better software at a faster pace, allowing us all to enjoy technology more fully.With over $217 million in funding and a community of 100,000+ organizations supporting our vision, we are dedicated to developing performance and error monitoring tools that enable companies like Disney, Microsoft, and Atlassian to minimize bug fixing and maximize product development.Embracing a hybrid work model across our global offices, we invite you to join us in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays to foster meaningful collaboration. If you are passionate about building solutions that enhance the digital experience, come help us innovate the future of software monitoring tools.About the RoleThe Data Science team is an integral part of Sentry's Data & Analytics within the Business Operations organization. We are focused on leveraging data to drive smarter decisions by creating models and analytical systems that translate data into actionable insights. Our commitment is to deliver high-impact, production-ready data science projects that bolster teams across Product, GTM, and Finance.In the role of Senior Data Scientist, you will be pivotal in defining the data science framework at Sentry. You will tackle complex, ambiguous challenges, develop models that yield significant business results, and help set the standards and practices that facilitate the scalability of data science efforts. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams will ensure that our data science initiatives are trusted, widely adopted, and impactful across the organization.If you thrive on solving challenging problems, enjoy working independently, and seek to harness data science to influence real-world decisions, we are eager to connect with you.Your ResponsibilitiesDefine a repeatable data science operating model including roadmapping, stakeholder engagement, and delivery standards.Develop and deploy predictive models that inform product and business decisions, such as customer adoption, intelligence, lead scoring, and impact measurement.Collaborate with GTM, Product, and Finance teams to integrate models into actionable workflows rather than limiting them to dashboards.Provide technical leadership, elevating the standards for data science practices at Sentry.Work alongside Data Engineering to guarantee reliable deployment of production models.Enhance the foundational elements that boost experimentation and learning over time.What You'll Appreciate About This RoleThe opportunity to shape the future of data science at Sentry.A collaborative environment that values innovation and creativity.The chance to work on meaningful projects that have a real impact on the business.

The traditional credit landscape often favors those who are already financially secure, imposing stringent requirements for credit history, collateral, and expensive underwriting processes. Unfortunately, this leaves over 1.4 billion individuals without access to essential credit services. Consider a vendor in Lagos, who earns cash daily but lacks the documentation to prove a consistent income, or a Colombian nurse with impeccable informal repayment history, yet remains overlooked by banks.At Divine Research, we have developed an innovative solution known as Credit. Launched in December 2024, we have already provided hundreds of thousands of undercollateralized loans utilizing stablecoins. These loans have empowered individuals globally to cover essential expenses such as groceries, healthcare, and transportation. With a robust backing of $6.6 million from Paradigm and Nascent, we are scaling our system which has successfully assisted half a million unique borrowers. Join us in elevating our mission further.About the RoleWe are on the lookout for a skilled Data Scientist to enhance our data infrastructure and extract actionable insights across our product offerings, specifically focusing on Credit, our premier undercollateralized lending platform. In this role, you will be responsible for designing key metrics, building analytics infrastructure, and converting on-chain data into strategic insights that influence product development and roadmap decisions.Technology StackPythonSQLGrafana/PrometheusStatistical modeling and visualization toolsBlockchain data and indexing tools (Dune, Shovel)Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with product and research teams to establish north star metricsDevelop scalable data pipelines and dashboardsTranslate key metrics and trends into practical guidance for product development, strategy, and go-to-market initiativesDesign and analyze A/B tests and experimental studiesConduct comprehensive analyses of user behaviors and usage patternsQualifications4+ years of experience in a Data Scientist or Research Analyst roleStrong proficiency in Python, SQL, and various data analysis toolsIn-depth understanding of EVM-compatible chains, smart contract data, and indexing toolsExcellent problem-solving skills and attention to detailAbility to communicate complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders