About the Role
In the company Frontier Company Engineering team, you will not only build software but also deliver real outcomes for complex organizations. As part of a global team of world-class engineers, you will engage in a Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) model, embedding within customer teams to solve their toughest challenges and ship production-ready solutions quickly.
As a Principal Data Scientist, your role involves transforming how organizations leverage data by developing models, running experiments, and driving evidence-based decisions that yield measurable business impacts. You will collaborate in small, multidisciplinary teams alongside engineers, product managers, and domain experts, overseeing the full lifecycle from data discovery to deployed solutions, particularly in the Government, Defense, and Intelligence sectors. Your work will leverage AI, employing a mindset and tooling that allows for swift transitions from ideas to production while upholding security, quality, and trust.
This opportunity includes:
- Working with messy, real-world datasets and transforming them into scalable, production-ready solutions
- Running experiments that directly influence business strategy and customer outcomes
- Collaborating with leading global organizations across various industries
- Applying the latest advancements in AI and data science to address large-scale problems
The company is committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture emphasizes a growth mindset, innovation for empowerment, and collaboration to meet shared goals, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone thrives.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee the acquisition of necessary datasets for project delivery, ensuring data is correctly formatted and described. Address gaps in current datasets and initiate discussions surrounding ethics and privacy in data collection and preparation.
- Evaluate team models using metrics connected to genuine business outcomes, recommending necessary improvements, driving best practices, and developing operational models at scale. Conduct thorough reviews of data analysis and modeling techniques, and create new evaluation methods.
- Maintain a comprehensive understanding of industry trends and technologies to identify strategic opportunities and contribute to thought leadership in best practices. Write extensible code across multiple features and develop expertise in debugging techniques.
- Define business, customer, and solution strategy goals and partner with other teams to investigate new opportunities, delivering pragmatic solutions that align with customer data capabilities.
- Serve as the expert data scientist, coaching engineers and cross-disciplinary partners in best practices to scale knowledge within the team.
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or a related field AND 5+ years of data science experience (managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques, and reporting results)
- OR a Master's Degree in a related field AND 7+ years of data science experience
- OR a Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 10+ years of data science experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Proven experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)
- Doctorate in a related field AND 8+ years of data science experience
- OR a Master's Degree in a related field AND 10+ years of data science experience
- OR a Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 12+ years of data science experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of customer-facing, project-delivery, professional services, or consulting experience.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% (role-dependent).
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
The company is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of various characteristics protected by applicable local laws. If you require assistance with religious accommodations or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, support is available.
