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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We are the Data Foundation & AI team within Plaid’s Data organization. Our mission is to build the shared ML and AI infrastructure that powers intelligent capabilities across Plaid’s product suite. We develop the foundational systems, models, and data assets that transform Plaid’s unique financial network data into scalable, general-purpose representations that teams across the company can leverage. Our work spans the full ML lifecycle — from large-scale data curation and model pretraining to production serving, evaluation, and monitoring. As part of the team, you’ll work at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure, applied AI, and distributed systems, helping establish the core AI platform that enables innovation across Plaid. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy and development of Plaid’s foundation models, driving key decisions across pretraining objectives, model architecture, and fine-tuning approaches that power a wide range of downstream product applications. You will serve as the technical lead for the full machine learning lifecycle, overseeing everything from data curation and experimentation to production deployment, feature management,
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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. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Credit, a critical product area within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. You’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders, helping shape Credit product strategy, improve product performance and user experience, and grow Plaid’s consumer network. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and KPIs tied to business goals and user experiences, a
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. About the Team At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life. We are a central team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. We embed with partner teams to build and apply machine learning models that improve internal decision-making and power the Plaid product suite. About the Role You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team, part of Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone for a team supporting a diverse set of internal and external products. You will help drive better decision-making, support machine learning model development, and contribute directly to the health of the Plaid network and the quality of Plaid’s products. Your day-to-day work will include: Analyzing entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks. Creating foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems that provide a clear view of network health and machine learning model performance. Evaluating the value and performance of machine learni
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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Senior Data Scientist supporting Plaid App, a critical user-facing product within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. In this role, you’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development as the team launches and scales the product from 0 to 1. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and metrics tied to business goals, and support feature ship decisions through experimenta
$170K – $225K/yr
About Taskrabbit: Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! Prior to applying please note: W e are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, F1, CPT or other employment-based visas). Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. This role is hybrid requiring 2 days in office at our San Francisco hub every Tuesday & Wednesday (located at 130 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA). About the Role Data Science plays a crucial role in driving impact at Taskrabbit. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Data Scientist to join us, working closely with cross-functional teams from Product teams and occasionally Commercial Operations to provide data-driven insights and solutions that enhance our products and accelerate growth while minimizing marketplace losses. What you will work on Be a strategic thought partner with stakeholders in Product and occasionally Commercia
$170K – $225K/yr
About Taskrabbit: Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world. Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! Prior to applying please note: W e are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, F1, CPT or other employment-based visas). Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. This role is hybrid requiring 2 days in office at our San Francisco hub every Tuesday & Wednesday (located at 130 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA). About the Role Data Science plays a crucial role in driving impact at Taskrabbit. As a member of the team, you will help drive our business strategy forward through predictive insights. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Data Scientist to join us, working closely with cross-functional teams from product, finance, engineering, risk and operations to provide data-driven insights and solutions that enhance our products and accelerate growth while minimizing marketplace losses.
About the Team The Alignment team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values, even as they scale in complexity and capability. Our work is at the cutting edge of AI research, focusing on developing methodologies that enable AI to robustly follow human intent across a wide range of scenarios, including those that are adversarial or high-stakes. We concentrate on the most pressing challenges, ensuring our work addresses areas where AI could have the most significant consequences. By focusing on risks that we can quantify and where our efforts can make a tangible difference, we aim to ensure that our models are ready for the complex, real-world environments in which they will be deployed. The two pillars of our approach are: (1) harnessing improved capabilities into alignment, making sure that our alignment techniques improve, rather than break, as capabilities grow, and (2) centering humans by developing mechanisms and interfaces that enable humans to both express their intent and to effectively supervise and control AIs, even in highly complex situations. About the Role As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Alignment team, you will be at the forefront of ensuring that our AI systems consistently follow human intent, even in complex and unpredictable scenarios. Your role will involve designing and implementing scalable solutions that ensure the alignment of AI as their capabilities grow and that integrate human oversight into AI decision-making. This role is especially well suited for someone who can move from an ambiguous model-behavior question to a concrete experimental setup: formulate the hypothesis, build the evaluation or intervention, run the experiment, analyze the result, and decide what the evidence supports. This role may be based in San Francisco or London, subject to team needs and location approval. In this role, you will: We are seeking research engineers and res
About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role OpenAI is building a dedicated Digital Natives vertical focused on high-growth technology and internet companies shaping the future of software. As a Sales Manager, you will recruit, develop, and lead a team of senior Account Directors responsible for landing and expanding OpenAI’s largest and most strategic Digital Native customers. You will define how we win in this segment — establishing the operating cadence, deal strategy, and vertical GTM playbook for engaging sophisticated, technically fluent buyers building AI into their core products. You will operate as a hands-on front-line leader: deeply involved in complex opportunities, elevating sales discipline, and shaping how OpenAI scales enterprise revenue in the most dynamic segment of the market. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. Key Responsibilities Recruit and develop a high-performing team of Account Directors. Establish a coaching culture centered on rigorous deal reviews, structured 1:1s, and clear performance standards. Raise the talent bar continuously through thoughtful hiring, development, and accountability. Architect and refine the GTM strategy for high-growth tech and internet companies. Shape territory design, account prioritization, and coverage mo
About the Team The Youth Well-Being product team is part of the Integrity pillar at OpenAI, responsible for ensuring that our state-of-the-art AI technologies are deployed in safe, age-appropriate, and beneficial ways—especially for youth and families. We work across OpenAI’s entire product surface area, from ChatGPT to future-facing tools, to architect safety and trust into the foundation of our systems. Our mission: empower families while meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ethical responsibility. This work is core to OpenAI’s mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Safety, especially for the most vulnerable users, is more important to us than unfettered growth. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build the foundational systems that power family- and youth-facing experiences at scale. You’ll help define how teens and guardians engage with OpenAI products—ensuring those experiences are safe, compliant, and empowering. You’ll operate across a broad technical surface: building identity primitives, age assurance pipelines, and guardian tools that support both proactive and reactive interventions. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of engineers, data scientists, designers, user researchers, and policy experts. This is a high-impact, 0→1 opportunity to set the standard for how families interact with generative AI. In this role, you will: Architect and implement teen and guardian experiences across OpenAI products, including ChatGPT. Build global age assurance systems that are privacy-preserving and tailored to regional compliance needs. Design and evolve our identity infrastructure to support scalable, secure, and resilient user journeys at consumer internet scale. Help define safety and well-being metrics, and continuously improve user trust through technical interventions. You might thrive in this role if you: Have built products or infrastructure for users under 18, or h
About the Role OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to partner closely with Capacity Systems Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and Research to optimize inference capacity across our global GPU fleet. This role combines statistical modeling, large-scale data analysis, forecasting, and systems thinking to drive critical decisions around infrastructure investments, performance-efficiency trade-offs, and customer experience. You’ll transform complex operational data into actionable insights that directly influence how OpenAI allocates and scales one of the world’s largest AI compute environments. Key Responsibilities Build statistical and machine learning models to profile and improve GPU utilization, latency, throughput, and overall fleet efficiency. Develop forecasting models for inference demand across products, regions, and model families. Analyze production workloads to identify latency bottlenecks and capacity constraints, highlighting optimization opportunities. Partner with Capacity Systems Engineering to inform infrastructure planning and long-term GPU investment strategies. Design experiments and simulations to evaluate scheduling policies, serving strategies, and infrastructure tradeoffs. Build dashboards and operational metrics that enable leadership to make data-driven capacity decisions. Collaborate with Product, Research, Finance, and Infrastructure teams to align compute planning with business growth and model roadmaps. Communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering teams and executive leadership. Qualifications MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience). 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space. Strong ex
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re hiring a Data Scientist to help build and scale our internal analytics capabilities. This is a foundational role where you’ll create dashboards, data models and insights to power business and product teams alike. You’ll collect requirements, define key metrics, and deliver insights directly to stakeholders. You'll define what success looks like across a technical, usage-based platform and turn ambiguous questions into analyses, forecasts, and experiments that shape Baseten’s product and strategy. RESPONSIBILITIES Build and maintain production-grade dbt models and dashboards across multiple functions with a focus on accuracy, simplicity and user experience. Define and instrument core metrics around ROI, product adoption, customer lifecycle, capacity, availability, revenue and costs. Ingest and transform raw data using tools like dbt, Airbyte, and BigQuery. Partner with Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and Sales teams to understand goals and translate them into data solutions REQUIREMENTS 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data analysis, analytics, data science or a related role Advanced SQL and dbt skills, with a record of building models, tests, semantic layers and lineage in a cloud data warehouse. Prior experience supporting complex cross-functional projects across GTM, Finance and Engineering across various stages of the customer journey. Experience building dashboards and self-serve analy
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels. About the Role We’re looking for a Marketing Scientist to join OpenAI’s Ads Marketing Science function. Reporting to Marketing Science leadership, you’ll be a senior individual contributor who combines rigorous measurement expertise with strong client judgment and hands-on execution. Your mission is to help OpenAI Ads prove and improve advertisers’ media performance. You’ll work with sales, partners, and clients supporting all forms of measurement including verification, attribution, incrementality, brand, marketing mix modeling (MMM), and scalable advertiser reporting, connecting sound methodology to decisions advertisers can act on. You will partner closely with Sales on key advertising accounts and with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Partnerships, Legal, and Privacy. Initial priorities include advancing incrementality measurement, helping onboard measurement partners to privacy-forward measurement workflows and integrations, and creating reusable programs, tools, agents, skills, and workflows that let sales and clients access high-quality Marketing Science support at scale. This role is based in either San Francisco or New York, and follows a hybrid schedule (Monday-Wednesday). In th
Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role: You will apply your expertise in statistical inference and experimentation to understand the impact of product changes and drive decision-making. You will explore ambiguous areas and conduct analysis to identify opportunities for the Growth org, helping shape the strategy and roadmap. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, and marketing leaders at every step of the development process, driving forward data science and analytics work. You'll work with your teams to determine north star and operational metrics, and build the foundational datasets and dashboards to monitor progress and make key decisions. You'll influence the broader company by communicating your findings and driving change in our product and business. (Insights are useful. Impact is even better!) Skills You'll Need to Bring: You are comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by business results. You have expertise in SQL and at least one scripting language (ideally Python or R). You know how to use statistical inference and experimentation to drive actionable recommendations. You are comfortable transforming raw data to build your own data sets
About the Role We’re hiring a Data Scientist to support Real Estate & Workplace (REW), a fast-moving global team focused on creating workplaces that help OpenAI’s people do their best work while scaling the company’s real estate and workplace operations. Our work is grounded in understanding how people use space and services, collaborate across physical and digital environments, and experience the workplace. REW’s scope spans portfolio strategy, design and construction, space planning, sustainability, workplace experience, and global operations. You’ll work comfortably across this broad, sometimes messy data landscape and build trusted relationships across the domain. The work informs high-impact decisions with immediate, visible effects—from where teams work and how space and services are allocated to which investments move forward and how workplace experiences evolve. This is a high-ownership Data Science role spanning analytical strategy and hands-on execution. Working at the forefront of AI-native analytics, you’ll help define the future of workplace operations at OpenAI rather than follow an established playbook. You’ll shape REW’s Data Science roadmap, identify where forecasting, experimentation, and optimization can drive impact, and translate business priorities into an analytical plan. You’ll own the stakeholder-facing execution layer—including owning agent-built dashboards, recurring reporting, models, and decision tools—along with analytical requirements, validation, adoption, and measurable business impact. In this role, you’ll be partnered closely with Finance, People Analytics, IT, and REW leaders. You’ll own problems end to end—from framing and prioritization through analysis, recommendation, delivery, adoption, and iteration—so the work drives measurable business outcomes. What You’ll Do Own ambiguous, high-impact problems end to end—from framing and prioritization through delivery, adoption, and iteration. Define success metrics and build measur
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? We're building the foundational infrastructure that will define how the world thinks about and deploys AI, and we want the sharpest, most curious people to help us do it. As a Data Scientist on our Analytics and Data Insights team, you'll work on problems that don't have textbook answers yet; building the analytics that shape product and company strategy, designing the experiments that prove or kill our biggest bets, and helping enterprise customers understand what foundational AI actually means for their bottom line. You'll own analytical work end-to-end: from framing the right questions and building the models to shipping insights, tools, and results that product leaders, sales teams, and enterprise customers rely on. As a Data Scientist, you will: Drive the mission forward. Build bleeding-edge agentic analytics: Agentic analytics is far from a solved problem, and we want to be the company that solves it. We need the sharpest minds with the curiosity, drive, and focus required to build the tools necessary to bring order and clarity to real world data. Define AI impact measurement: own the end-to-end analytics st
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