Remote Data Scientist

Summary

Join AE Studio, a development, data science, and design studio, as a Data Scientist to work on custom software and machine learning solutions. You will be part of a team that creates agency-increasing products and has worked with large entities like Samsung and Walmart. The role involves deploying proceeds from consulting work to support research into cause areas and solving the problem of AI alignment.

Requirements

• Fluency in Python–used often, derided occasionally, and considered its eponymous reference to the best of British sketch comedy
• Proven data science experience–primary or equal contributor, multiple smaller projects, management of steak-holders (so projects come out ‘well-done’)
• Comfort with the statistics and methods deployed in classification problems–that is, the ability to see the random forest for the trees
• Familiarity with NLP/NLU–even if this posting’s language is a bit unnatural, we suspect you’ll understand our process
• Experience calling machine learning APIs via REST or client libraries - and determining that their responses lack wit, guile, and tact
• Agile experience (worked with Kanban, Scrum, Extreme Programming)–or a sound literary understanding of Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” even if you don’t speak French
• Growth mindset  – You had better be funnier after the first 90 days
• Willingness to learn our systems (wait, we have systems?)
• Full-time availability–but if you have cool side projects that increase human agency, we totally want you to keep working on it...we’ll even help!
• Demonstrated ability to work independently/autonomously
• Ability to communicate effectively and work exclusively in English.  This is a must, our ability to crack jokes in other languages is decidedly de rigeur

Responsibilities

• Deploy proceeds from consulting work in development and data science to support research into cause areas
• Solve the problem of AI alignment (aligning future powerful systems with human best interests)

Benefits

• Equity in some of our client projects and in the Skunkworks projects we incubate
• Salary range from $120k/year to $220k/year