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Data Science Lead

Washington, D.C.💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-01

Core

Lead a data science team building the data foundation for compliance systems where customers are autonomous agents, focusing on clustering, attribution, heuristics, and labelling for digital asset decisioning.

Role type

Senior IC data science lead (player-coach)

Builds

Data collection pipelines, production ML models, and platform capabilities for compliance and risk management

Domain

Fintech / Blockchain / Digital Asset Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI fluency, Python, SQL, team leadership, hiring, model governance, data stack architecture

Preferred skills

Experience with cloud data lakes, Spark/Databricks, AWS, managing underperformance

Technologies

Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, AWS

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the data science team; hire data scientists; define data collection specifications; own model governance and validation; frame research questions and run experiments; write code and review methods; partner with Engineering and Product; set AI working standards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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