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# Principal / Senior Data Scientist

- **Company:** ARLYN, INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $255,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology, Systems Architecture, Unstructured Data, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f93c02c1d36cb725

## About the Role

* A strong conceptual thinker with deep technical expertise, who enjoys translating complex, ambiguous business challenges into clear, structured data problems.
 * Passionate about LLMs and real-world AI applications, with a pragmatic, impact-driven mindset
 * Bachelor's/Master's degree with 5+ years of industry experience in finance, biotech, or tech startups, Or PhD in a quantitative field (CS, Computational Biology, Statistics, etc.) with 2+ years of industry experience
 * Hands-on experience building AI applications, including prompt engineering, advanced analytics, and transforming large-scale unstructured data into production-ready solutions
 * Collaborate across Engineering and Data Science teams to lead decision-making on essential system architectures and core operational workflows.

## Description

* Own the end-to-end development and deployment of agentic LLM applications that deliver measurable business impact.
 * Design, build, evaluate, and ship production-ready AI systems from prototype to production.
 * Partner with founders to define product direction and turn business problems into AI solutions.
 * Collaborate with Engineering to build scalable AI infrastructure, system architecture, and internal tools.
 * Improve system performance, reliability, and user experience through rapid experimentation and iteration.


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