Senior Data Scientist - Data Foundations & AI

Join Plaid as a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Data Foundations and AI. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise in machine learning and data analysis to drive innovations that enhance our core data products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will create solutions that empower our clients and improve user experiences.

About Plaid Plaid builds tools that help developers create new financial products and experiences. Since 2013, Plaid has connected millions of users to over 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe. The company partners with organizations like Venmo, SoFi, Fortune 500 firms, and major banks to make linking financial accounts to apps and services easier. Headquarters are in San Francisco, with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London, and Amsterdam. Team: Data Foundation & AI The Data Foundation and AI team designs and maintains the machine learning and AI infrastructure that supports Plaid’s products. This group transforms Plaid’s financial network data into flexible formats used by teams across the company. Responsibilities span the entire system lifecycle: data curation for pretraining, model development, deployment, serving, and monitoring in production. Role Overview: Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) This position focuses on applied research for Plaid’s foundation model. The Senior Research Scientist leads efforts to design model architectures, set pretraining objectives, and implement fine-tuning strategies that work across a range of product needs. The role also involves building and maintaining production machine learning systems, including training pipelines, model serving, feature engineering, and performance monitoring. Key Responsibilities Design model architectures and define pretraining objectives for Plaid’s foundation model Develop and apply fine-tuning methods for diverse product use cases Build and maintain end-to-end machine learning systems, from data pipelines to model serving Engineer features and monitor system performance in production Create evaluation frameworks to measure model quality across multiple tasks and metrics Location This role is based in San Francisco.

Join the dynamic Analytics team at DoorDash as a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist, where your expertise will directly influence strategic decisions and operational improvements. You will uncover valuable insights from vast datasets, transforming them into actionable recommendations that drive company-wide initiatives. Collaborate with diverse teams in areas like Consumer & Growth, Business Operations, and Customer Experience to elevate our analytics capabilities and impact our business in meaningful ways.

At Descript, we are on a mission to revolutionize the way audio and video content is created. Our innovative platform has earned the trust of renowned podcasters, influencers, and prestigious organizations like BBC, ESPN, HubSpot, Shopify, and The Washington Post. With $100M in funding from top investors, including the OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital, we are poised for tremendous growth. We are seeking a proactive and analytical Senior Marketing Data Scientist to join our dynamic Growth team. In this role, you will collaborate with the Performance Marketing team to design and implement a comprehensive measurement framework, optimize marketing performance across the entire funnel, and drive data-informed business strategies. This crucial position will enable Descript to enhance its marketing capabilities across both B2C and B2B sectors. You will leverage AI-driven analytics tools to streamline decision-making processes and deliver scalable predictive insights. This position can be performed remotely within the United States or onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Role overview Pinterest is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for its Responsible AI team. This position focuses on building AI systems that prioritize ethics and fairness. The work involves applying advanced statistical methods and machine learning to support responsible technology development. What you will do Develop and refine AI models with an emphasis on ethical outcomes and fairness Apply statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms to real-world product challenges Work closely with teams across engineering, product, and policy to align AI technologies with Pinterest’s standards for user trust and responsibility Location This role is based in San Francisco, CA, or can be performed remotely within California.

Join our innovative team at Pinterest as a Senior Data Scientist in the Core division. We're looking for a data-driven professional who is passionate about leveraging data analytics and machine learning to enhance user experience and drive business outcomes. At Pinterest, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop data models and insights that influence strategic decisions.

Join Pinterest as a Senior Data Scientist focusing on Generative AI Automation, where you will leverage your expertise to drive innovative solutions that enhance user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop models that harness the power of AI, optimizing our platform's capabilities and functionalities.Your role will involve analyzing large datasets, creating predictive models, and deploying AI-driven automation tools that support our strategic goals. We are looking for a creative thinker who is passionate about data science and AI, eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

About the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation The Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation (SGBFF) is dedicated to fostering a more equitable and resilient world. We unite individuals to support one another through key initiatives: LeanIn.Org, LeanInGirls.Org, OptionB.Org, and the Dave Goldberg Scholarship Program. Through our community engagement, research-driven content, and diverse programs, we empower women and allies to cultivate the skills, confidence, and networks essential for achieving their fullest potential. We envision a world of equality, and we believe that collective efforts are key to realizing this vision. While your primary focus will be on Lean In, this role provides an exciting opportunity to impact various mission-oriented initiatives. Role Overview We seek a Data Scientist who excels at converting data into actionable insights. The ideal candidate will demonstrate analytical rigor, thoughtful interpretation, and a strong motivation to drive impact. In this role, you will enhance our understanding of community experiences, evaluate effective strategies, and inform strategic decisions that shape our products and programs. Your contributions will have a direct effect on how we serve millions of women and allies globally. Key Responsibilities Transform Data into Insights- Identify trends and patterns in data to discover opportunities for growth and improvement.- Translate complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations that guide decision-making.- Design and conduct analyses to assess user engagement, content effectiveness, and program impact. Enhance Product and Program Impact- Collaborate with product, marketing, and program teams to define meaningful metrics and gauge success.- Develop experimentation frameworks and analyze A/B tests to refine features and user experiences.- Create predictive models and recommendation systems to personalize and enhance user journeys. Establish Strong Foundations- Build dashboards and visualizations that convey insights clearly and effectively.

Join SoFi as a Senior Software Engineer in our Data Foundations team, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data architecture and enhancing our data-driven capabilities. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop robust data solutions that empower our business decisions and improve customer experiences.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in data engineering, software development, and cloud technologies to build scalable data pipelines and maintain high-quality data infrastructure. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to deliver innovative financial solutions.

About Extend:Extend is transforming the post-purchase landscape for retailers and customers by delivering AI-powered solutions that elevate customer satisfaction and enhance revenue growth. Our all-encompassing platform streamlines customer service, simplifies returns and exchanges, automates fulfillment processes, and offers product and shipping protection, all while ensuring top-tier fraud detection. By fusing cutting-edge technology with outstanding customer support, Extend equips businesses to foster consumer trust and loyalty, driving down costs and boosting profitability.Today, Extend collaborates with over 1,000 premier merchant partners spanning various sectors, including fashion, cosmetics, furniture, jewelry, consumer electronics, auto parts, sports, fitness, and beyond. Supported by leading technology investors, our headquarters is situated in downtown San Francisco.About the Role:The Revenue Analytics team is dedicated to crafting strategic recommendations based on data to scale, boost, and recover revenue. We excel at integrating insights from Sales, Growth, Product, Engineering, and Risk to unearth growth and expansion opportunities that directly impact the company’s profitability. If you're passionate about distilling complexity and uncertainty into measurable outcomes, you'll flourish on our team.What You Will Be Doing:Cross-functional Leadership: Drive cross-functional teams independently through complex queries to influence and enact revenue-generating initiatives and recommendations.Revenue Enhancement: Develop and implement innovative strategies aimed at maximizing revenue and improving client acquisition across the entire revenue pipeline.Data-Driven Decision Making: Spearhead enhancements to our quantitative analysis methods (simulation models, A/B testing, causal impact analysis, etc.) to effectively guide strategic direction, with opportunities to present insights to leadership regularly.Data Infrastructure Management: Oversee, refine, and enhance existing data pipelines to leverage data analytics effectively, defining data structures, and utilizing advanced tracking methods to identify revenue opportunities.Exemplary Standards: Establish a benchmark for the team regarding analytical thinking and excellence.

About tvScientifictvScientific is the premier CTV advertising platform specifically designed for performance marketers. By harnessing extensive data and innovative science, we automate and enhance TV advertising to achieve tangible business results. Our integrated solution encompasses media buying, optimization, measurement, and attribution, all within a single, efficient platform. Developed by industry veterans with deep experience in programmatic advertising, digital media, and ad verification, our platform provides advertisers with the trust they need to scale their business.As a vital member of our Data Science team, you will transform data into actionable insights, influence business strategies, and lead analytics projects from start to finish. Your daily responsibilities will include crafting tailored reporting and analytics tools to address the specific needs of our clients.

About the Role Grow Therapy is hiring a Senior or Staff Data Scientist in San Francisco. This role focuses on using data to inform key decisions and improve therapy services.

Tendo is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to drive our analytics initiatives aimed at enhancing quality management and risk adjustment within health systems. In this pivotal role, you will leverage data from a variety of public and private sources, transforming it into actionable insights that empower healthcare providers. You will be responsible for the development, maintenance, and optimization of predictive models that enhance product performance across various domains, including quality improvement, risk assessment, and operational efficiency.We are looking for a candidate with a strong AI-native mindset and hands-on experience applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques to solve real-world challenges. Your enthusiasm for exploring innovative AI capabilities will play a crucial role in revolutionizing healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to pose unique, data-driven questions and spearhead new analytical projects that push the boundaries of our understanding.

About Our TeamJoin the User Operations team at OpenAI, where we are dedicated to delivering outstanding customer experiences with our innovative products. Our team tackles complex challenges, provides expert technical guidance, and empowers customers to fully leverage our solutions. Collaborating closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, and other departments, we ensure a seamless experience for our diverse clientele, ranging from emerging startups to established global firms. Given the rapid pace of innovation at OpenAI, transforming our extensive support data into real-time insights and scalable analytics is vital for maintaining exceptional customer satisfaction as we move toward AGI.Role OverviewWe are looking for a proactive Support Data Scientist who will analyze user-support data to identify trends, volume patterns, and friction points, converting insights into actionable strategies and continuous reporting. You will design and maintain self-serve dashboards that provide real-time information to stakeholders, ensuring seamless collaboration with Data Science and Engineering teams for clean data pipelines, robust modeling, and scalable tools. Your work will focus on proactive friction detection and real-time service health monitoring, delivering insights that drive informed decision-making rather than just aesthetic presentations.This position is based in San Francisco, California, employing a hybrid work model with three days in the office each week. We also offer relocation assistance for new hires.Key Responsibilities:Analyze extensive support and product datasets to identify trends, key drivers, and user experience challenges, translating findings into actionable insights.Develop and maintain user-friendly self-serve dashboards and reporting tools that empower non-technical teams to address their own data inquiries.Create a standardized metrics framework for service performance, establishing automated data-sharing pipelines and scorecards with our BPO partners to maintain a unified real-time view of success.Utilize large language models (LLMs) to build custom classifiers that automatically categorize and segment incoming data, enhancing routing accuracy, enriching self-service insights, and accelerating root-cause analysis.Collaborate with Data Engineering to ensure reliable data pipelines, implement quality checks, and document processes for sustained excellence.

Join SoFi as a Senior Data Scientist in our Credit Strategy team, where you will leverage data-driven insights to enhance our lending strategies and improve customer experiences. You will be responsible for developing advanced analytical models, utilizing machine learning techniques, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-centric decisions.

About RoxAt Rox, we are pioneering the development of an AI-native revenue operating system that transforms how enterprises interact with technology. Unlike traditional software designed for human dashboard operators, Rox is engineered for agents managing complex systems.We eliminate static workflows, enabling continuous decision-making processes powered by real-time insights from across the enterprise landscape. Our agents are equipped to analyze signals, reason through them, and autonomously execute actions.To support this innovation, we are constructing a robust infrastructure that integrates:Distributed data platformsReal-time decision-making systemsAgent execution frameworksLow-latency context retrievalBacked by prominent investors like Sequoia, GV, and General Catalyst, we are assembling a talented team of engineers eager to tackle deep technical challenges that have a tangible impact on the world.About the Foundations TeamThe Foundations team is responsible for developing the core infrastructure that powers Rox agents.Our work focuses on:Real-time context ingestionAgent execution and orchestrationEnsuring reliability for long-term AI tasksLow-latency decision-making across distributed systemsIf you have experience with:Streaming compute platformsDistributed query enginesReal-time OLAP systemsMatching enginesLarge-scale data infrastructureMany challenges you encounter here will resonate with your past work but will be applied to a novel category of software. At Rox, agents continuously:Retrieve contextMake decisionsTrigger actionsUpdate stateThe Foundations team builds the infrastructure that ensures these feedback loops are reliable, swift, and observable.The RoleWe are on the lookout for a Foundations Engineer (Deep Infrastructure) to design and oversee the systems that power Rox's agent runtime.

Join Grow Therapy as a Senior Data Scientist dedicated to enhancing user experiences and driving growth in mental healthcare. In this pivotal role, you will analyze user behavior to optimize onboarding and retention strategies, influence product development, and lead AI integration in therapy solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create predictive models and analytical frameworks that empower our mission to connect therapists and patients effectively.

About DecagonDecagon stands at the forefront of conversational AI, enabling brands to create unparalleled concierge customer experiences.Our innovative technology empowers leading enterprises such as Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to harness AI agents that facilitate personalized and highly engaging interactions across various channels, including voice, chat, email, and SMS.We envision a future where customer experience transcends traditional support methods, offering quicker solutions, enriched dialogues, and more profound connections. Backed by elite investors like a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, we are committed to this vision.At Decagon, we thrive in an office environment that champions collaboration, excellence, and rapid progress. Our core values—Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle—guide our team dynamics and growth.About the RoleIn your role as a Senior Data Scientist at Decagon, you will apply rigorous technical expertise to analyze, test, and leverage data across our business operations. You will design experiments, utilize advanced statistical techniques, and construct scalable analytical frameworks to directly influence product strategy and enhance corporate performance.You will collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to implement robust measurement practices, promote data-driven decision-making, and derive insights that will guide Decagon’s future direction. This position requires a blend of analytical excellence and product insight, with the capacity to impact decisions at the highest organizational levels.In this role, you willDevelop and manage foundational datasets and metrics that reflect usage, performance, and efficiency across Decagon's AI platform.Enhance and expand Decagon’s data models, metrics, and dashboards to ensure coherent and scalable reporting across various teams.Collaborate closely with Engineering to inform strategy using data—identifying potential bottlenecks and scaling challenges before they escalate.Partner with Product and Engineering teams to integrate experimentation and measurement best practices into product development processes.Continuously refine Decagon’s data stack, ensuring efficient models, pipelines, and tools that enable self-service analytics across the organization.

Employee Applicant Privacy NoticeAbout Us:Join us in shaping a brighter financial future.At SoFi, we are revolutionizing how individuals interact with personal finance. As a forward-thinking financial services company and national bank, we utilize innovative, mobile-first technology to empower millions of members to achieve their financial goals. The finance industry is undergoing a significant transformation, and we are leading the charge. Every day, we come to work with the knowledge that our efforts have a tangible impact on people's lives, guided by our core values. Become part of our mission to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial landscape.Your RoleThe Borrow Data Science team is on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist who will play a crucial role in driving growth across our Lending sectors by converting raw data into actionable insights that fuel our success. This position is perfect for an inquisitive data scientist who is driven to discover insights in advance of requests.To excel in this role, you must function as a strategic partner; you are more than just a technical executor—you are an analytical storyteller who bridges the gap between intricate data and business strategy. You will leverage technical skills in SQL, Python, dbt, and Airflow to build robust pipelines in Snowflake, while your true influence will manifest through leading cross-functional initiatives and advocating for data-driven decisions that shape the product roadmap.Key ResponsibilitiesProactive Insight Generation: Harness your curiosity to explore data deeply, uncovering trends and opportunities that may be overlooked, and share these findings proactively with leadership.AI Innovation: Serve as a catalyst for AI integration within the team. Identify and implement AI tools and workflows that enhance data engineering tasks, expedite analysis, and drive substantial business results.Analytical Storytelling: Transform complex quantitative analyses into clear, convincing narratives that enable business leaders to make informed, high-impact decisions.Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize core product decisions, including funnel conversion, experimentation, and unit economics.

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.