Job Details

Position: Data Scientist Consultant

Duration: Contract

Location: Remote

We are seeking a Data Scientist with strong scientific computing expertise to support the development of a customer-facing automation solution. This role involves integrating scientific software systems, performing rigorous statistical comparisons, and building new components that accelerate product delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Build elements and components for a scientific automation platform.
• Perform statistical mirroring and evaluation across two scientific or engineering applications.
• Use data science methodologies to compare, benchmark, and improve application performance.
• Integrate third-party scientific codebases with existing systems.
• Develop Python-based scientific software-not general ML models, but scientific functionality and computational logic.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to incorporate findings into product improvements.

• Ph.D. in a STEM field highly preferred; Master's with a thesis accepted if paired with strong scientific/engineering experience.
• Demonstrated domain knowledge in a scientific, mathematical, or engineering discipline.
• Fluent Python coding, with experience building scientific computing applications.
• Experience contributing to open-source or external scientific software projects is a major plus.
• 1-2+ years executing complex data science or scientific computing projects in industry.
• Proven experience integrating and evaluating scientific systems, comparing performance, and delivering insights from rigorous analysis.
• Ability to build, test, and evaluate data science solutions from the ground up.