CareerPlan

Staff Applied Scientist

San FranciscoFull-time$184k–$300k2026-11-06
No visa sponsorship

Core

Lead the Predictive and Generative AI team to deliver ML-enhanced marketing solutions, building flexible training pipelines and high-throughput APIs for personalized customer experiences.

Role type

Staff Applied Scientist (hands-on IC with team leadership)

Builds

Distributed model training and serving systems, model lifecycle management pipelines, and the underlying ML platform for hundreds of customer-specific models.

Domain

Marketing technology, customer engagement, and personalization.

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, recommender systems, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, Kubernetes, system reliability, cost optimization.

Preferred skills

Multi-armed bandits, uplift modeling, MLflow, Ray, feature stores, ML observability, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis.

Responsibilities

Drive transformative initiatives for model training and serving infrastructure, build complex ML systems from design to production, set technical vision and quality standards, mentor senior engineers, and connect technical decisions to business outcomes.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with team leadership