# Data Scientist - Production Engineering

**Company:** [Cordial](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cordial)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $140k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Python, Dagster, Airflow, AWS, Glue, Athena, ECS, S3, Snowflake, BigQuery, Distributed Computing
**Posted:** 2026-06-05

> Data Scientist focused on operationalizing, optimizing, and scaling production data science models and pipelines. Requires 3+ years production experience, strong Python skills, and expertise in AWS, data pipelines, and data warehouses.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Optimize existing data science models and systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
- Translate research-grade or prototype data science code into production-ready implementations
- Work with large datasets and improve efficiency related to memory usage, runtime, and compute cost
- Contribute to and maintain production data pipelines and workflows
- Collaborate closely with other data scientists to preserve model intent, correctness, and assumptions while improving implementation quality
- Debug and resolve issues in production or near-production data science workflows
- Improve robustness, monitoring, and maintainability of deployed models and pipelines
- Support iterative model improvements and system evolution as business needs change

## Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, plus 3+ years of experience working with real-world, industry, or production data in a data science, applied ML, or analytics role
- Demonstrated experience contributing to production data science or analytics systems, not only exploratory or academic projects
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience writing maintainable, production-quality code
- Experience working with large datasets and performance-sensitive workflows
- Prior experience with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Dagster, Airflow, etc.)
- Cloud platform expertise, particularly AWS services (Glue, Athena, ECS, S3 Tables, etc.) for scalable data processing and model deployments
- Hands-on experience with modern data warehouse solutions (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.) including query optimization, clustering strategies, and cost management
- Experience with big data technologies and distributed computing frameworks for handling enterprise-scale event datasets
- Solid understanding of data science fundamentals, including statistics and modeling concepts, sufficient to work closely with research-oriented data scientists
- Ability to work independently and ramp up quickly in an existing codebase and system
- Experience working in small, fast-moving teams where ownership and autonomy are expected

## Compensation & Benefits
- $140,000.00 - $175,000.00 base salary annually
- Equity and bonus
- Medical/dental/vision/life benefits
- 401k match
- Flexible time off and paid company holidays
- Annual company conference
- Childcare and continued education yearly reimbursements

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