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# Founding Forward Deployed Data Scientist (3+ years)

- **Company:** VANTARA LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), NumPy, Standard Sql, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Prompt Engineering, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Statistics Packages, Power Analysis (Cryptography)
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/founding-forward-deployed-data-scientist-3-years-san-francisco-ca--4644af6c-0bd7-4444-89b0-6e9781fcb9a2

## About the Role

Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Customer/Consumer Behavior, Customer Relations, Customer/Client Research, Process Improvement, Reengineering, Product Engineering, Product Pricing, Distributed Computing, * 3+ years of hands on data science experience in a high caliber product-analytics teams, preferably at a B2B SaaS company

 * Advanced Python & SQL skills: pandas, NumPy, StatsModels/Scikit-learn, warehouse fluency (BigQuery, Snowflake)
 * Expertise in data sampling techniques, including stratified sampling, bootstrapping, and extrapolation.
 * Independently built and shipped analytics frameworks or tools adopted by product or growth teams
 * Deep familiarity with causal inference and measurement techniques: A/B testing, diff-in-diff, propensity scoring, matched markets, statistical power analysis
 * Practical experience with LLMs: prompt-engineering, embeddings, evaluation of hallucination risk
 * Clear communicator: author executive level insights readouts for product, design, and engineering audiences
 * Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, prioritizes ruthlessly, and delivers projects end-to-end with minimal guidance
 * Learns new tools and methods rapidly; consistently ships self-initiated improvements that cut analysis cycle-time, We will have 2 screening interviews, one in-person and one remote. These interviews will test real-world problem solving and should need no advance preparation. Finally, we will want to spend at least 2 days (and ideally more) working together on a real-world project. You will be compensated for your time.

## Description

Vantara is laying the foundation for self improving software. Our agent finds patterns in user behavior, rank orders issues in your products and proactively remedies them, finding hard to spot issues and opportunities. We aren't publicly sharing more details about what we're building just yet but would love to tell you more. You'll own direct relationships with these customers, delivering insights that drive real product decisions. This isn't traditional analytics - you're building the measurement infrastructure for the next generation of AI products.
What You'll Do

 * 70% Customer Champion: Build deep relationships with design partners, uncover what drives their success, and deliver insights that drive product changes for them.
 * 20% Technical Builder: Create the next-gen methodology for generating user insights and productize it.
 * 10% Product Strategist: Connect the dots between customer learnings and product vision. Your insights won't sit in a deck - they'll drive the roadmap.