Lead Data Scientist (AI/ML)
About GatherUp
GatherUp helps local businesses improve their online presence through AI-powered platforms that leverage reviews and customer experience feedback. Owned by Insight Integrity, which also owns The Transparency Company, GatherUp focuses on enhancing trust and visibility for local businesses.
Mission
As Lead Data Scientist at GatherUp, you will design and develop AI/ML models to enhance the integrity of online commerce for local businesses. This role involves working closely with engineering, product, and business teams to build systems that support the company’s mission and objectives.
What You’ll Do
Build AI/ML solutions end-to-end: design, data preparation, feature engineering, model selection, finetuning, training, deploying, validation/testing, and performance analysis
Ensure models are scalable, monitored, and continuously improved in production
Create reproducible training and evaluation pipelines (versioning, experiment tracking, robust validation, clear documentation)
Apply NLP techniques to analyze unstructured text and surface patterns at scale
Conduct exploratory research and data analysis to identify trends
Partner with engineering, product, and business teams to translate requirements into product
Communicate model behavior, trade-offs, and impact clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Who You Are
3+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or a related field
Demonstrate fluency with modern deep learning concepts, including transformer fundamentals and LLM pre-training vs post-training concepts
Proven track record of building and deploying ML models in production environments
Strong experience with NLP and unstructured text data
Proficiency in Python and SQL
Experience training NLP models using ML frameworks and architectures such as PyTorch and RoBERTa
Experience fine-tuning LLMs for production use cases
Experience building and deploying RAG pipelines
Ability to communicate complex model behavior to non-technical stakeholders
Strong ownership mindset — you drive projects end-to-end and hold yourself accountable to outcomes
Bonus Points
A Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related)
Experience in and passion for fraud detection, trust & safety, or review/content integrity
Why GatherUp
Your work directly supports the economic prosperity of local businesses and the future of local commerce
Clear expectations, real ownership, and performance-based upside
A fast-moving team where strong execution is recognized and rewarded
What We Offer
Competitive Compensation: $140K–$180K (base salary + bonus) + Equity
Full Benefits: 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employee
401(k) Program: Invest in your future
Flexible vacation policy
Annual L&D stipend and continuous training and development opportunities
Company laptop provided
Location
We have an office in Walnut Creek, CA. We are a remote-friendly company for the right candidate.