[Remote] Data Scientist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FutureFit AI is dedicated to helping individuals secure better jobs efficiently, particularly those facing barriers to opportunity. They are seeking a Data Scientist to develop models that connect people to suitable jobs and skills, collaborating with various teams to translate data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Build, evaluate, and ship models for matching, recommendation, and ranking that directly shape the job seeker experience
• Work with skills, occupation, and career taxonomies and labor market data, improving how we represent and reason about the world of work
• Collaborate with Engineering to move models into production reliably, and monitor and improve them once they are live
• Translate messy, real-world data into clear findings and recommendations that the team and our customers can act on

Skills

• Strong applied data science experience (roughly 4+ years), with a track record of shipping models that made it into a real product
• Explicit jobs-and-skills or workforce data experience, OR experience with closely related data where there is a clear pathway to apply it to workforce problems (this is a firm criterion for the role)
• Fluency in Python and SQL, and solid grounding in machine learning, NLP, and recommendation/matching techniques
• Comfort working with large, imperfect datasets and making sound judgment calls about them
• Clear communication: you can explain a model and its tradeoffs to a non-technical audience
• Experience with recommender systems, ranking, or search at scale
• Familiarity with skills/occupation frameworks (e.g. O•NET, ESCO) or HR/labor market data
• Experience pairing classical ML with LLMs, including where to use each and how to add guardrails
• Publications, presentations, blog posts, or other public artifacts showcasing your expertise and depth of knowledge in data science

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