Data Scientist

YipitData

Data Scientist at YipitData transforming alternative data into signals for financial decisions. Conducting causal inference and predictive modeling to support institutional investors and Fortune 500 clients.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSpark

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Translate ambiguous customer questions into well-scoped data science projects spanning panel data, time series, and causal inference
Engineer features from large alternative-data panels (transaction-level, invoice-level, web-scraped) using Spark
Build, validate, and interpret causal and predictive models that link alternative-data signals to financial outcomes such as revenue, earnings surprise, and KPI inflections
Author technical white papers and customer analyses for institutional investors and Fortune 500 readers, including figures, equations, and narrative framing for sophisticated readers
Use LLM coding assistants and agents as a primary collaborator: prototype faster, write higher-quality code, audit your own work, and ship deliverables in compressed timelines
Build internal LLM-driven tooling (agents, eval harnesses, retrieval pipelines) for the broader organization
Partner with data engineering, product, and revenue teams to close the loop between signal development and the customer-facing product
Set technical standards for the team: PEP 8, type hints, vectorized operations, reproducible notebooks, sound methodology, and citation discipline

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have shipped multiple data science projects end-to-end and can point to quantifiable customer or business impact
Your statistical foundations are real, not surface-level. You can defend a causal-inference method choice end-to-end under technical questioning
You write Python that reads like the work of a senior engineer: clear naming, type hints, vectorized code, no premature abstraction
You already use LLM coding assistants daily and can describe specific cases where they multiplied your output without compromising quality, and specific cases where you overrode them
Writing is a primary skill for you, not a side hobby. You communicate as carefully on the page as you do in code
You take ownership without prompting: you find the right question, ship the answer, and explain it
Humility about what you do not know matters as much as confidence about what you do
You read the literature, cite sources, and ground your work in established methods rather than reinventing them.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We care about your personal life, and we mean it. We offer flexible work hours, flexible vacation, a generous 401K match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, learning reimbursement, and more!
Your growth at YipitData is determined by the impact that you are making, not by tenure, unnecessary facetime, or office politics. Everyone at YipitData is empowered to learn, self-improve, and master their skills in an environment focused on ownership, respect, and trust.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data sciencecausal inferencepredictive modelingfeature engineeringPythonvectorized operationsstatistical analysisLLM coding assistantsreproducible notebookstechnical writing

Soft Skills

communicationownershiphumilitycollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailcritical thinkingadaptabilitycustomer focuswriting