Data Scientist

Company: Scale.jobs

Location: Minneapolis, MN (Remote)

Type: Full-time

Remote: Yes

Posted: 2026-07-15

About this role

About The Role
The role drives the development, validation, and deployment of predictive models that optimize core business processes. Operating within a highly collaborative team of data engineers and product managers, this position translates complex business requirements into robust statistical frameworks and machine learning algorithms.


This position is critical for scaling data-driven decision-making across the organization, focusing on improving predictive accuracy, ensuring model explainability, and maintaining high availability in production pipelines.


Key Responsibilities

  • Develop, evaluate, and deploy predictive and prescriptive models using Python and R, specifically targeting classification, regression, and time-series forecasting challenges
  • Design and optimize complex SQL queries and PySpark pipelines to extract, transform, and aggregate structured and unstructured data from multi-terabyte data warehouses
  • Establish rigorous model validation protocols, statistical testing methodologies, and A/B testing frameworks to measure business impact and model performance
  • Partner with MLOps and engineering teams to containerize models using Docker and deploy them as microservices on AWS or Kubernetes platforms
  • Monitor models in production to detect data drift, concept drift, and performance degradation, implementing automated retraining loops where necessary
  • Communicate complex modeling results, methodology trade-offs, and statistical findings to non-technical stakeholders through interactive dashboards and clear presentations

What We Are Looking For

  • 3-6 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or Applied Statistician, with a proven track record of deploying models to production environments
  • Strong proficiency in Python (including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and XGBoost) and advanced SQL for complex data manipulation
  • Solid theoretical foundation in statistics, probability, experimental design, and machine lea...

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