Senior Data Scientist I

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist I to help design, build, and evaluate advanced AI capabilities powering LeapSpace. This role will focus heavily on applied AI research and development, including prototyping intelligent workflows, integrating large language models with trusted scientific data, and advancing AI-assisted research experiences.

What You Will Do

Lead prototyping and development of LLM-powered research workflows, including scientific question answering, literature summarization, semantic exploration and discovery, research insight generation, and citation-aware reasoning workflows.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is ideal for someone with strong hands-on experience in applied AI, NLP, retrieval systems, and LLM-based applications, who enjoys rapidly prototyping and translating emerging AI techniques into scalable product capabilities.

Requirements

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, or a related field
• Significant experience in applied AI, machine learning, NLP, or information retrieval
• Strong hands-on experience with LLM-based applications and generative AI systems, RAG pipelines and retrieval systems, search and retrieval architectures, evaluation methodologies for IR and generative AI systems, and advanced programming skills in Python
• Experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and tooling, experience working with Databricks or similar distributed data/ML platforms, strong understanding of experimentation design, evaluation frameworks, and statistical analysis, and proficiency with data visualization and analytical tooling

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Shared parental leave
• Study assistance
• Sabbaticals
• Wellbeing initiatives