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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Scientist - **Company:** AARDEN, INC. - **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, PostGIS, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), Lidar, Data Pipelines - **Published:** September 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/sr-data-scientist/11289376?handler=ApplyRedirect ## About the Role * Strong data science and ML fundamentals, plus hands-on experience with geospatial data and tooling (GDAL/OGR, Postgres/PostGIS, Sedona, or similar). * Production-quality Python and fluent SQL, with willingness to pick up other languages as needed (e.g., TypeScript). * A track record of designing evaluation frameworks for geospatial, environmental, or socioeconomic models, where ground truth may be scarce, imbalanced, or contested. * Experience using LLMs as components in data pipelines or modeling. * Proven discipline for building data curation and model development workflows that are documented, reproducible, and versioned. * Good judgment about how your outputs impacts customers, including the ability to explain them to non-experts. Additional Nice to Haves * Experience in one or more of the domains we model: renewable energy, land conservation, forestry, data center development, residential real estate, or commercial real estate. * Deep expertise in a technique or data type outside our current areas of focus (e.g., imagery, lidar, forecasting, simulation) paired with a view on how it could help our product strategy. * Comfort and an interest in supporting customer-facing demos, presentations, and discussions. ## Description Develop and maintain product-focused data science and machine learning models for land-use suitability, land valuation, comparable transactions, and community sentiment. Source and curate geospatial and market datasets, design evaluation frameworks, improve existing models, and collaborate with design, product, and engineering to deliver customer-facing insights. The role requires production-quality Python, SQL, geospatial tooling, reproducible workflows, and the ability to explain analytical outputs to non-experts., Aarden's business is built around providing unique, highly trusted insights about land use, land value, and market dynamics to our customers. We are looking for a product-focused data scientist to help us maintain and develop several of the models and analytics that power those insights. Today that work spans three primary areas. First, we score parcel-level suitability for specific development uses, so a given site gets assessed differently depending on whether someone is evaluating it for conservation, a data center, solar, wind, or residential development. Second, we run an automated valuation model and comparable transactions identification for bare land, where comps are often thin and estimating the value of land is contingent on how the land might be used. And third, we model current and historic community sentiment related to different development activities. You'd own meaningful pieces of these modeling efforts and help decide what analytical capabilities we build next. What You'll Do * Build new models and analytics that surface insights from our ever-growing database of land and market attributes. * Extend and refine existing models to improve performance and support new use cases. * Source, evaluate, and curate datasets on land use, property characteristics, and market factors, both as model inputs and for validation. * Work with design, product, and engineering to deliver your work to customers. If you're interested, you'll also have the chance to build user-facing features yourself., Aarden is a high-trust, high-output team. We're striving to be intentional about our team growth. This allows us to test the outer boundaries of our individual capabilities, while also going deeper on developer tooling and support. You'll work hard here, and we've got your back. Practically, this means you'll be asked to take on large projects, have a high bar of expectations to meet, and have a strong support system to help you meet that high bar. That support system includes: * At least 2 in-person days per week | We've found that while heads-down time at home is fantastic for task-related productivity, in-person time is magic for longer-form productivity and relationship building. You'll be expected to work at least 2 in-person days at either our headquarters in Seattle or our regional hub in Boulder, CO. In the latter case, you'll also be expected to travel to Seattle on a periodic basis to meet with our full team. Our in-person days are used to plan, troubleshoot, and check-in with each other on progress and questions. Expect team lunches and whiteboarding. * Focused ownership in your role | The rest of the team is here to help you and cares deeply about the long-term functionality of our applications. With that said, we'll be looking to you to own your lane, go deep, and develop a strong stance on what it takes to make our applications best-in-class. * Dedicated monthly AI tooling budget | We're in a golden era of AI-powered developer tooling. We strongly encourage augmenting your output with AI tools, and have a dedicated & flexible budget for every team member to support that setup. 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