Data Scientist

Jobright.ai
United StatesFull-timePosted Sep 13, 2026

About the role

Jobright is a personal AI job search agent that simplifies the job search process and helps users reach better outcomes. The Data Scientist develops and evaluates statistical and machine learning models, translates product and business questions into analytical problems, designs experiments, and collaborates on model integration and monitoring.

Why Join Us

  • Build real, production AI agents used by real users
  • High ownership and impact
  • Work at the intersection of AI, agents, and product
  • Shape how people experience AI-driven job search

Responsibilities

  • Translate product and business questions into measurable analytical and modeling problems
  • Prepare and validate datasets, features, and evaluation splits
  • Develop statistical and machine learning models and compare them with meaningful baselines
  • Design experiments and analyze uncertainty, bias, and model performance
  • Partner with engineers to integrate useful models and monitor their performance over time

Qualification

Required

  • Practical experience completing applied data science projects
  • Strong Python and SQL skills for data preparation and analysis
  • Understanding of statistics, hypothesis testing, supervised learning, and model evaluation
  • Ability to identify leakage, sampling bias, and limitations in data and experimental results
  • Ability to explain methods, uncertainty, and recommendations to different audiences

Preferred

  • Experience with ranking, recommendation, or search problems
  • Familiarity with experiment platforms, model monitoring, and reproducible ML workflows

Responsibilities

  • Translate product and business questions into measurable analytical and modeling problems
  • Prepare and validate datasets, features, and evaluation splits
  • Develop statistical and machine learning models and compare them with meaningful baselines
  • Design experiments and analyze uncertainty, bias, and model performance
  • Partner with engineers to integrate useful models and monitor their performance over time

Qualifications

  • Practical experience completing applied data science projects
  • Strong Python and SQL skills for data preparation and analysis
  • Understanding of statistics, hypothesis testing, supervised learning, and model evaluation
  • Ability to identify leakage, sampling bias, and limitations in data and experimental results
  • Ability to explain methods, uncertainty, and recommendations to different audiences

Skills mentioned

PythonSQLData AnalysisStatistical AnalysisMachine LearningSupervised LearningModel EvaluationFeature EngineeringRecommendation SystemsModel Monitoring

About Jobright.ai

Every hire is two searches - a person looking for the right role, and a company looking for the right person. For two years, Jobright worked only the first one. 2 million professionals now use our AI agent to find roles, sharpen how they show up, and get in front of the people hiring. Earlier this year, we started working the second. Employers can now put Jobright on a role. Our AI recruiter sources from the professionals who already trust us, verifies every candidate is real, and reaches out under a name candidates recognize, which is why they reply. What reaches the hiring team is a list of people worth interviewing, within 24 hours. All they do is interview. Two searches. One platform. Agents on both sides that keep working until both sides say yes.

Software Development11-50 employeesSanta Clara, California