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Fundamental Research LabsFundamental Research LabsUnited States

Data Scientist (Forward Deployed)

Forward Deployed Data Scientist deploying NEXUS (Large Tabular Model) into customer production environments. Works end-to-end from data engineering and model benchmarking through last-mile integration and stakeholder communication.

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Remote2+ YOEData Science

About the role

Key Responsibilities

  • Deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI
  • Work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
  • Collaborate with research and product teams to translate operational pain points and data anomalies into essential inputs for the product roadmap
  • Identify the right business problems, prevent data leakage, and handle "last mile" integration (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped)
  • Collaborate with Sales and Solution Architect teams to align diverse stakeholders and explain predictions to business users

Requirements

  • PhD or Master's in CS, Math, Stats, or equivalent deep statistical literacy
  • 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
  • Mastery of the end-to-end pipeline: framing, pre-processing, ML algorithms, and validation strategies
  • Deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
  • Demonstrated experience optimizing models for specific business problems
  • Strong communication skills with ability to translate architectural nuances into clear business value

Nice to Have

  • Experience with PyTorch and cloud-native ML pipelines (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Staff Data Scientist
  • Industry-based subject matter expertise

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation with salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, 401K)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relocation support

Skills

PysparkpandasDockerFastAPIFlaskXgboostLightgbmPyTorchAWSGCPAzure

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