Data Scientist (Washington)

Data Scientist

Washington, DC (Hybrid)

About the Role :

We are looking for a highly motivated Data Scientist with a strong background in applied machine learning and AI to join our growing team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the development of core AI / ML solutions that power our platform. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, applying state-of-the-art techniques to solve complex challenges, advance our use of large language models (LLMs), and ensure scalable, production-ready solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Leverage 5+ years of experience in data science to design, implement, and optimize machine learning models and pipelines.
• Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) for a variety of applications, ensuring accuracy, performance, and robustness.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate AI / ML solutions into our platform in a scalable and maintainable way.
• Conduct applied research, staying current on advances in LLMs, generative AI, and data science methodologies, and translate them into practical solutions.
• Build end-to-end workflows, from data exploration and feature engineering to training, validation, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Apply modern containerization and orchestration techniques (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to support reproducible experimentation and deployment.
• Work with cloud platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure) to manage data pipelines, large-scale training jobs, and distributed systems.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure our AI capabilities align with platform goals and business needs.

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