Junior Data Scientist

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 2005, we now have 300 employees.

Overview

Kilnworks Labs is hiring a Junior Data Scientist for our Los Angeles location. Applied data science role. We care more about whether your model gets used than about its AUC on a holdout set. This position is on site in Los Angeles.

Job duties

• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches
• Estimate causal effects with difference-in-differences, propensity matching or regression discontinuity
• Pull and shape data with SQL from Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness

What you need

• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences

Preferred qualifications

• Bayesian methods with PyMC or Stan
• Causal inference beyond A/B testing
• Pricing or marketing mix modeling
• MLflow or another experiment tracking tool

The salary range for this role is $104,000 - $135,000 annually. This range reflects base salary only.

What you get

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid holidays

Kilnworks Labs is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Start: Immediately.

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