Senior/Staff Data Scientist, Analytics
Riva Scientific · New York, NY · 2 wk ago
EngineeringContract
About the role
We are looking for a Senior/Staff Data Scientist with 8+ years of experience to join our Analytics team in New York.
Qualifications
- Strong SQL and Python skills — you write production-quality queries and analytical scripts
- Deep statistics background — hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, power analysis, causal inference
- Extensive experience designing and operating experimentation frameworks at scale
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation
- Business acumen — you translate analytical findings into clear, actionable narratives for non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent communication and narrative crafting skills, with the ability to explain complex methods to product, sales, and executive audiences
- Experience working with LLM or AI product data is a strong plus
- Familiarity with supervised learning techniques (e.g., regression, classification, gradient boosting) for predictive analytics use cases
- Exposure to unsupervised learning methods (e.g., clustering, dimensionality reduction) for customer segmentation or behavioral analysis
- Some experience working alongside or supporting ML model deployment — understanding inference pipelines, feature stores, or model monitoring
- Comfort reading and interpreting NLP/ML research papers to stay current on methodological advances relevant to our data
- Experience with BI/visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Omni, Tableau)