Key Responsibilities

- Problem framing: partner with product and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business questions into well-defined, testable data science problems.
- Analysis: conduct exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, and statistical analysis to generate and validate insights that inform product/business decisions.
- Model development: design, build, train, and validate machine learning models classification, regression, clustering, time series, or NLP depending on team focus to solve defined business problems.
- Experimentation: design and analyze experiments (A/B tests, causal inference methods) to measure the real-world impact of product and model changes.
- Validation rigor: rigorously validate model performance using appropriate metrics, back-testing, and out-of-sample validation before recommending production deployment.
- Communication: communicate findings, model limitations, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive audiences.
- Production hand-off: partner with AI/ML Engineers and Data Engineers to productionize validated models, defining the handoff contract features, retraining cadence, monitoring requirements.
- Ongoing monitoring: monitor deployed model performance over time and lead root-cause analysis when models degrade or behave unexpectedly.
- Mentorship: mentor junior data scientists/analysts on statistical rigor, experiment design, and modeling best practices.

Required Qualifications





- 5+ years of experience in data science, applied statistics, or machine learning roles, with a track record of models/analyses deployed to production or used for real decision-making.
- Robust foundation in statistics hypothesis testing, experiment design, causal inference and classical/modern ML techniques.
- Proficiency in Python or R, SQL, and standard data science libraries (pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels).
- Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests or other experimental/quasi-experimental methods.
- Strong communication skills able to explain statistical/modeling concepts and their limitations clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams to operationalize models into production systems.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with deep learning/NLP techniques relevant to the team's domain (e.g., transformer-based models, time-series forecasting, graph-based methods).
- Domain expertise in the team's specific industry.
- Experience with MLOps concepts (model versioning, monitoring, drift detection) even if not directly implementing them.
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in statistics, applied math, computer science, or a related quantitative field.

Tools & Technical Stack

Python/R, SQL, Jupyter, scikit-learn, statsmodels/PyMC, pandas/numpy, in-house or third-party experimentation platforms, BI tools (Looker/Tableau) for communicating findings, MLflow/Weights & Biases for experiment tracking.

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🏢 Opus Technologies
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