
Applied Data Scientist
Cresta
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
About the role
- Co-develop new capabilities with high-impact enterprise customers along with product, engineering, and design teams using their real workflows and constraints as your testbed
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
- Plan and run short, focused design-partner engagements where you ship early versions, collect structured feedback, and iterate quickly
- Generalize learnings from each design partner into reusable, productized capabilities rather than one-off bespoke models
- Partner with domain experts to curate high-quality eval guidelines and datasets for domains such as CSAT prediction and outcome prediction
- Use the best tools and models for the job
- Write clear specs and experiment reports that make tradeoffs and assumptions explicit
- Stay close to the research frontier in ML/AI, LLMs, and evals, translating promising ideas into pragmatic, shippable improvements
- Help translate solutions into publications, whitepapers, technical blogs, etc.
Requirements
- 3+ years building and shipping models for real-world business applications, ideally in NLP and LLM-based systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and standard ML / data tooling (e.g., SQL, data pipelines, experiment frameworks)
- World-class first principles thinking and ML intuition
- Ability to turn ambiguous product asks into crisp problem statements, eval specs, metrics, and hypotheses
- Experience working directly with customers or internal stakeholders to understand constraints, explain tradeoffs, and iterate on solutions
- Comfort working with design-partner style engagements where requirements evolve rapidly and you’re expected to co-create the solution
- Track record of building evaluation suites that capture reliability, safety, and qualitative user experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly explain complex technical work to both engineers and non-technical partners.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
- Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
- Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
- Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
- Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
- Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
- In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonNLPLLMmachine learningdata pipelinesSQLexperiment frameworksmodel evaluationCSAT predictionoutcome prediction
Soft Skills
effective communicationfirst principles thinkingML intuitionproblem statement formulationcustomer engagementco-creationiterative solution developmentwritten communicationverbal communicationtechnical explanation