Applied Scientists - AI Economics

About the role

The AI Economics Team at Auger is building an AI and agentic-powered market intelligence system that enables our customers to forecast supply chain risk, optimize sourcing decisions, and respond to global disruptions in real time. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to design, deploy, and scale the systems at the core of this platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle for production systems including demand and cost forecasting models, supplier reliability prediction, NLP pipelines for news and document intelligence, and real-time cost calculation engines.
• Design and implement ML models using Python and frameworks like scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, and PyTorch.
• Collaborate with economists on causal inference methodology, with data engineers on feature pipelines, and with product teams to translate model outputs into actionable customer-facing tools.
• Ship models that run at scale, monitor their performance in production, and iterate based on real-world feedback.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience building and deploying ML models in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch).
• Experience with time-series forecasting methods (ARIMA, Prophet, gradient boosting, neural forecasters).
• Familiarity with NLP pipelines: text classification, named entity recognition, document parsing, or sentiment analysis.
• Production ML infrastructure: model serving, feature stores, monitoring, retraining workflows, and deployment into existing CI/CD systems (including unit tests and integration tests).
• SQL proficiency and experience with data pipeline tools (Airflow, dbt, or similar).

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate model behavior and limitations to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

• Comfortable working with a variety of ML techniques and tools.
• Experience with real-time systems and data streaming.
• Knowledge of economic principles and their application to supply chain management.

Benefits

As part of our commitment to People Powered Greatness, we invest in our team members with competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package to support your health, financial future, and daily life. The package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with company match, and commuter benefits. Total compensation may include a combination of a competitive base salary and equity. Your initial placement within our salary range will be based on your experience, qualifications. The base pay range for this role is $180,000 – $250,000 per year.

Pay

$180,000 – $250,000 per year

Schedule

Full-time

Contact

To apply, please visit our careers page at auger.com/careers.