Senior Data Scientist – Machine Learning & AI

Senior Data Scientist – Machine Learning & AI

Remote | Full-Time |

Team Velocity is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and deploy machine learning, predictive analytics, and AI solutions that improve customer engagement, marketing performance, operational efficiency, and business intelligence.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced data scientist who can take models from data exploration and development through production deployment, monitoring, and optimization. You will partner with Product, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Analytics, and business leadership to deliver measurable business impact.

*This is a full-time remote position. Candidates must reside in the Continental U.S. and be able to support an 8:30 AM–5:30 PM ET business hours. Eastern and Central Time Zones highly preferred.*

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, evaluate, and deploy production machine learning models.
• Develop predictive models for churn, propensity, lead scoring, customer lifetime value, recommendations, forecasting, personalization, and marketing attribution.
• Perform statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, A/B testing, causal inference, and time-series analysis.
• Build feature engineering, model training, and inference pipelines.
• Deploy and monitor ML models, including model performance, drift detection, and retraining.
• Apply Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and vector databases to business and customer applications.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and leadership to translate business problems into scalable data science solutions.
• Mentor junior data scientists and establish best practices for model development, documentation, and code quality.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field; Master's or PhD preferred.
• 5+ years | Python + SQL | production ML | predictive modeling | model de