Senior Data Scientist

ABOUT ABBAS SOFTWARE:

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Abbas Software builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Abbas Software is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to work remotely from Pakistan. This hire will own our demand forecasting models and the process for keeping them accurate as conditions change. Remote within Pakistan. The team meets in Karachi once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM
• Validate model performance and document assumptions and limitations
• Design and analyse A/B tests, including power calculations and guardrail metrics
• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models
• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches
• Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift

ABOUT YOU:

• 5-7 years of applied data science experience
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks

PLUSES:

• Causal inference beyond A/B testing

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

• Flexible schedule

Duration: 3 months. Start: Flexible.

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