Senior Applied Scientist Jobs

The Applied AI team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as anomaly detection, error outliers and faulty deployment analysis. As an Applied Scientist you will work on building models and algorithms for machine learning powered features within the Datadog platform. You will work closely with our engineering and product partners to explore, build, scale and deliver these features that we incubate within the Applied AI team. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Design solutions for our different use cases. You will research and benchmark relevant algorithms to find the best fit for our use-cases Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new scalable product features Develop, deploy and monitor new and existing features to production Participate in our journal club by reading and presenting the latest academic research papers to the team Explore, analyze and tell the story behind high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems Maintain and monitor the models, services and infrastructure owned by your team Participate in your team’s on-call rotation Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or related scientific field or equivalent experience You have experience working with high-scale systems and datasets including building models, applying machine learning to real business problems, and writing production data pipelines You can explain complex ideas and algorithms to non-technical audiences You care about code simplicity and performa

About Ramp Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving. We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome. The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same. If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to help drive the future of credit applied science at Ramp. In this role, you will design, build, and optimize the models that power our credit risk systems, helping us make faster, smarter, and more scalable risk decisions for our customers. You’ll work at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, economics, and product strategy. This role requires strong technical depth as well as close collaboration with business, product, data, and engineering partners. You will help identify high-impact opportunities, translate ambiguous business problems into rigorous modeling work, and ship models that operate reliably in production. Applied scientists at Ramp focus on solving quantitative problems across credit, fraud, growth, and our core product by applying the right mix of machine learning, causal inference, structural modeling, and optimization. What You'll Do Design, build, and optimize machine learning models that support credit risk decisioning and portfolio management at Ramp Own the

The Behavior AI team builds the AI-based anomaly detection behind Datadog's security products. Our models learn what normal looks like across the billions of logs, events, and telemetry records flowing through the platform every second, and they flag the behavior that does not fit, on every record, in real time, at a cost that makes sense at our scale. What we build does not ship to a single feature. The same models power detection across many of Datadog's security products at once, so the work has impact well beyond any one team. Large general-purpose models are too slow and too expensive to run in that path, so we take the opposite approach: small, custom models, designed for high-throughput stream processing and optimized to run cheaply on every record. We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to build these models from start to finish. You will contribute to designing the architecture, training at scale, and the optimization work that takes a model from training to running efficiently on production traffic. This optimization requires a deep understanding of the constraints imposed by both the software and the hardware, together with the applied mathematics to work within them: often it comes down to finding a mathematical reformulation that fits those constraints better, and that judgment can decide whether a model reaches production at all. The work involves a number of open questions. How do you obtain most of the quality of a large model from one that is far smaller and cheap enough to run on the full stream? Where is it worth trading exactness for speed, and how do you reason about the error you accept? How do you make a small model's outputs clear enough that the detection engineers and analysts who rely on it can trust what it reports? If these are the problems you want to work on, we would like to hear from you. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture: the relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it bring

The Applied AI team designs and builds algorithmically driven features in the Datadog app. We work across a range of applications, primarily focusing on analysis on streaming data such as anomaly detection , error outliers and faulty deployment analysis . As an Applied Scientist you will work on building models and algorithms for machine learning powered features within the Datadog platform. You will work closely with our engineering and product partners to explore, build, scale and deliver these features that we incubate within the Applied AI team. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Design solutions for our different use cases. You will research and benchmark relevant algorithms to find the best fit for our use-cases Leverage machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to build new scalable product features Develop, deploy and monitor new and existing features to production Participate in our journal club by reading and presenting the latest academic research papers to the team Explore, analyze and tell the story behind high volumes of data flowing through Datadog systems Maintain and monitor the models, services and infrastructure owned by your team Participate in your team’s on-call rotation Who You Are: You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning or related scientific field or equivalent experience You have experience working with high-scale systems and datasets including building models, applying machine learning to real business problems, and writing production data pipelines You can explain complex ideas and algorithms to non-technical audiences You care about code simplicity and performance You are excited to work on

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview The Advertiser Optimization team is the decision-making engine of Instacart's $1B+ ads business. We own the systems responsible for Bidding, Pacing, Budgeting, and Targeting: converting stated advertiser goals into real-time auction actions. Our mission is to maximize realized Advertiser Value by deciding when to participate, how much to bid, and how fast to spend, all while balancing User Experience and Platform Revenue. We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist II to lead the algorithmic direction of these systems. This is a role for someone who thinks in terms of control theory, constrained optimization, and auction economics, and who can translate those frameworks into production code that makes millions of decisions per day. You will formulate problems from first principles, shape the technical roadmap, and own systems end-to-end from mathematic

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the Team The Finance Data Science team owns the forecasting systems that power Snowflake’s financial planning, operating cadence, and long-term strategy. Our work informs executive decision-making, corporate planning, investor reporting, and cross-functional decisions across Finance, Sales, and Product. We build and operate production forecasting systems for Snowflake’s core money-in metrics, with a particular focus on revenue and bookings in a consumption-based business. Our forecasts are highly visible, widely used, and foundational to how the company plans and operates. This is a high-trust team operating at the intersection of statistical modeling, production systems, and financial decision-making. The Role We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to own and advance mission-critical forecasting systems used across the company. This role is not just about building models. It is about developing reliable, explainable, production-grade forecasting systems that leaders can trust to make decisions. You will work on high-impact, open-ended problems involving revenue forecasting, customer consumption behavior, workload ramps, renewals, and other leading indicators that feed Snowflake’s broader financial planning processes. You will partner closely with Finance, Sales, Pr

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why This Role Is Different This is not a typical “Applied Scientist” or “ML Engineer” role. As a Member of Technical Staff, Applied ML, you will: Work directly with enterprise customers on problems that push LLMs to their limits. You’ll rapidly understand customer domains, design custom LLM solutions, and deliver production-ready models that solve high-value, real-world problems. Train and customize frontier models — not just use APIs. You’ll leverage Cohere’s full stack: CPT, post-training, retrieval + agent integrations, model evaluations, and SOTA modeling techniques. Influence the capabilities of Cohere’s foundation models. Techniques, datasets, evaluations, and insights you develop for customers will directly shape the next generation of Cohere’s frontier models. Operate with an early-startup level of ownership inside a frontier-model company. This role combines the breadth of an early-stage CTO with the infrastructure and scale of a deep-learning lab. Wear multiple hats, set a high technical bar, and define what Applied ML at Cohere becomes. Few roles in the industry combine application, research, customer-facing engineeri

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Staff Data Scientist on the Data Science team within the Platform group, you'll own pricing experimentation and strategy for Coinbase's Consumer & Business products. This team partners directly with Product, Engineering, and Design to turn deep analytical expertise into decisions that move the company's bottom line. You'll design and analyze pricing tests, build models that identify optimal strategies, and communicate findings to executives and cross-functional leaders. What you'll do: Own end-to-end pricing experimentation, from test design through analysis and recommendation Build and refine pricing models and evaluation frameworks that determine optimal pricing strategy across consumer products Partner with Product, Engineering, and Finance stakeholders to develop pricing vision, roadmap, and priorities Develop and maintain data pipelines and data models that power pricing analytics with production-grade craftsmanship Synthesize complex findings into clear, actionable recommendations and present them to senior leadership Required Skills and Experience: 8+ years of experience in data science with a focus on pricing experimentation, causal inference, and statistical modeling (PhD preferred, or Master's in Economics, Statistics, or related quantitative field) 5+ years directly leading pricing or experimentation workstreams, including designing A/B tests and

About the Team OpenAI’s People team hires, engages, and retains world-class talent to safely build and deploy AGI that benefits all of humanity. The People Analytics team helps leaders make rigorous, evidence-based talent decisions and ensures that the systems supporting those decisions are valid, reliable, fair, and accountable. About the Role As a People Data Scientist focused on AI fairness and bias testing, you will help establish how OpenAI evaluates AI-assisted People systems and high-impact talent processes. You will design and conduct rigorous assessments to identify, measure, and mitigate potential bias across the lifecycle of models, agents, decision-support tools, and automated workflows. Your work will span the entire employee life-cycle, such as hiring, performance, promotion, employee development, workforce planning, etc. You will evaluate both technical systems and the broader human-AI decision processes in which they operate, examining not only model performance but also data quality, measurement validity, differential outcomes, human oversight, and unintended consequences. We’re looking for an experienced data scientist or applied researcher who can translate complex fairness questions into defensible evaluation strategies, scalable testing infrastructure, and clear recommendations for technical teams and senior leaders. This role is preferred to be based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: Define and lead fairness and bias-testing strategies for AI-assisted People processes, models, agents, and decision-support systems from development through deployment and ongoing monitoring. Design rigorous algorithmic audits and validation studies, including adverse-impact analysis, subgroup and intersectional evaluation, error-rate analysis, calibration, measurement invariance, reliability, criterion-related validity, and sensitivity testing. Identify the appropriate fairness criteria for each use case, evaluate tradeoffs among competing definitions

Senior Data Scientist Description - The Team We are an expanding team at HP that develops applications that make use of Generative AI and Large Language Models. We work with business units mainly from the Commercial Organization to develop and run solutions that help our sales teams and customers. Responsibilities Defines and implements AI solutions to create business value and innovation. Works with Data Science leaders to develop new innovative solutions to existing or new business challenges. Develops clear presentations for business stakeholders and managers. Manages relationships with business partners to evaluate and foster data driven innovation, provide domain-specific expertise in cross-organization projects/initiatives. Knowledge & Skills Proficiency in Python and PySpark Programming: Strong coding skills in Python for data manipulation, model development, and integration with Azure services. Experience with Azure Services: Knowledge of key Azure services like Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Search, and Azure Functions for deploying RAG systems. Expertise in Databricks: Ability to design, develop, and optimize workflows in Azure Databricks for data processing and feature engineering. Understanding of NLP and GenAI concepts: Familiarity with Large Language Models, prompt engineering for LLMs, vector databases, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Experience in Applied Statistics and Algorithms: Use statistics, mathematics, algorithms, and programming to address business challenges. Familiarity with the deployment and scaling RAG systems in production, using Azure’s containerization options such as Docker, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), or Azure Funct

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. We are the Fraud Data team within Plaid's Fraud organization. We leverage relationships and activity across Plaid’s network to develop machine learning models that help customers detect and prevent fraud while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Our team owns the full model lifecycle, from data processing and experimentation to feature pipelines, model serving, and monitoring. In this research role, you’ll partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to uncover new signals, explore and evaluate innovative modeling approaches, and translate promising research into production-ready solutions that strengthen fraud detection across Plaid’s network. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will lead applied research to develop next-generation fraud detection models across relational graphs, sequential events, images, and video data. You’ll design rigorous experiments and evaluation methodologies that reflect real-world fraud dynamics, while exploring state-of-the-art approaches such as Graph Neural Networks and Transformer-based foundation models. In close partnership with Machine Learning Engineers, you’ll translate promising research into production-ready solu

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. Our Data and Analytics team is currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join us! You’ll be responsible for laying the foundation for a best-in-class business analytics function. You’ll partner closely with our business stakeholders to ensure that our analytics stack and processes meet the business needs today with an eye towards the future. What you’ll do as a Senior Data Scientist at Vanta: Build and maintain trusted product data assets using dbt, Snowflake, and modern analytics infrastructure Leverage AI-powered analytics tools and data agents (e.g., Snowflake Cortex) to accelerate insight generation, automate repeatable analysis, and scale decision-making Define and evolve measurement frameworks for product health, customer lifecycle, and AI-powered product experiences Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Customer Success to influence product strategy through data Help define Vanta’s analytics strategy and AI measurement practices as our product and data platform evolve Lead executive analytics reviews, translating complex analyses into clear recommendations that drive company decisions How to be successful in this role: 4+ years of experience working with data as a Data Scientist, Product Analyst, or Analytics Engineer in an applied business setting Strong foundation in SQL, Python (or R), statistics, and machine learning Experience designing and evaluating experiments, predictive models, and other statistical analyses to inform product decisions Experience building scalable data assets, metrics, and analytical frameworks on modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, dbt) Deep experience with da

About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About the ACE team The Agent Capabilities & Environments (ACE) team, part of Scale’s Research organization, brings together customer-facing Researchers and Applied AI Engineers. Our core mission includes research on agent environments and RL reward signals, benchmarking autonomous agent performance across real-world scenarios and environments, creating robust data programs to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) agentic capabilities and building foundational tools and frameworks for evaluating models as agents. ACE focuses on autonomous agents that dynamically interact with diverse external environments, including code repositories, GUI interfaces, browsers, and more. About This Role This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate t

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Role In this role, you will be a member of the Perception & Behavior team, leveraging the cutting edge of machine learning research to solve challenging real-world robotics problems. This role is focused on bringing advancements in the field of ML and large-scale learning to the AV domain, moving towards a more end-to-end autonomous driving system. This role requires working with and developing large models for perception and behavior, keeping up-to-date and experimenting with state-of-the-art architectures quickly and efficiently, collaborating with other teams to determine data and infrastructure support needs, and working to improve model optimization and inference speeds. You will use your applied research skills to think through the creation and deployment of these ML models on our autonomous vehicles while working alongside talented researchers in the field. If you love solving fundamental AI challenges and deploying your s

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking an AI Specialist who can provide hands-on expertise and support while working with technical decision makers and data scientists to design and architect AI solutions built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This is a strategic role that works closely with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and the broader field organization to ensure successful execution and customer adoption of Snowflake’s AI & ML solutions. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: Be the technical expert in the room that positions Snowflake’s AI and ML features and value to technical stakeholders at Snowflake’s customers across the Americas. Partner with Snowflake account team teams and customer champions to scope and drive POCs to success and technical wins that prove the value of Snowflake’s capabilities, including executive readouts and business value cases. Collaborate with Snowflake’s product and engineering teams to influence Snowflake’s AI and ML roadmaps based on customer feedback. Publish content that helps the team and company scale beyond your individual efforts, like blog posts, presentations at conferences, or technical collateral like notebooks and demos. Influence, tailor and maintain Sales Engineering AI and ML selling assets, inc