Data Scientist II

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Tucson since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2002, we now have 930 employees.

Job summary:

We're looking for a Data Scientist II to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will own our demand forecasting models and the process for keeping them accurate as conditions change. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Responsibilities:

• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations.
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM.
• Design and analyze A/B tests, including power calculations and guardrail metrics.
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks.
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models.
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality.
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of applied data science experience.
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool.
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks.
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data.
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design.
• MS or PhD in statistics, economics, computer science, physics or another quantitative field, or a BS plus equivalent experience.
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

• Causal inference beyond A/B testing.
• Bayesian methods with PyMC or Stan.
• Published research or strong Kaggle results.

Expected salary range: $66.00 - $81.50/hr, plus bonus eligibility.

Pay and benefits:

• $1,000 home office setup budget.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Yeager Data.