[Remote] Data Scientist (Forward Deployed)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fundamental is an AI company pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making, seeking a Forward Deployed Data Scientist to facilitate the adoption of their NEXUS product. The role involves managing customer relations, deploying solutions in production, and collaborating with various teams to translate technical insights into business value.

Responsibilities

• You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI
• You’ll work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing the work of data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
• You’ll work in collaboration with our research and product teams to translate operational pain points and data anomalies into essential inputs for the Fundamental roadmap
• You’ll be involved in technical strategy to identify the right business problems, prevent data leakage, and handle the "last mile" integration (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped)
• Your collaboration with the Sales and Solution Architect teams will help align diverse stakeholders and explain predictions to business users

Skills

• You hold a PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or you have equivalent deep statistical literacy
• You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer)
• You have experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
• You master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ml algorithm and validation strategies
• You have a deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
• You have demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem
• You hold strong communication skills with an ability to translate architectural nuances into clear business value
• Experience with PyTorch and cloud-native ML pipelines (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Staff Data Scientist
• Industry-based subject matter expertise

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K
• Paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys
• Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations
• A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action

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