Data Scientist

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Data Scientist at Applaudo, an AI-native technology company, building entity-matching models with embeddings and LLMs. Evaluating scalable, cost-effective solutions on messy, multilingual datasets.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and evaluate ML approaches for company/entity matching
  • Develop embedding and LLM-based matching approaches
  • Develop scoring and ranking methodologies to identify true matches and distinguish them from duplicates, lookalikes, and unrelated entities
  • Work with messy data, including names, aliases, domains, websites, firmographic attributes, multilingual records, and data hierarchies
  • Define benchmark datasets, metrics, baselines, and error-analysis processes
  • Design and execute experiments to validate hypotheses
  • Compare LLM-assisted approaches against lower-cost alternatives
  • Analyze model behavior, edge cases, and trade-offs
  • Consider inference economics and scalability from the beginning
  • Communicate experimental findings and recommendations to engineering and business stakeholders
  • Independently establish experimental pipelines and research approaches
  • Clearly document both successful and unsuccessful experiments

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of professional Data Science / Machine Learning experience
  • Strong applied Machine Learning fundamentals
  • Excellent Python and SQL skills
  • Hands-on experience with embeddings and semantic similarity
  • Practical experience applying LLMs to real-world problems
  • Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Strong experience with classification and NLP
  • Working knowledge of neural networks and transformer architectures
  • Hands-on experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, PyCaret, or equivalent ML frameworks
  • Experience retraining or maintaining classification models in production
  • Strong experimental design and model evaluation skills
  • Experience defining baselines, metrics, test sets, and error-analysis processes
  • Ability to evaluate model quality and demonstrate measurable improvements
  • Strong understanding of scalability and ML inference costs
  • Strong English communication skills
  • Nice-to-have: entity resolution, record linkage, or deduplication experience
  • Nice-to-have: ranking and similarity scoring
  • Nice-to-have: retrieval, clustering, or candidate-generation techniques
  • Nice-to-have: LLM/embedding solutions designed for cost and scale constraints
  • Nice-to-have: Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery
  • Nice-to-have: experience with company, domain, website, or firmographic data
  • Nice-to-have: experience working with multilingual datasets
  • Strong analytical and experimental mindset
  • Intellectual honesty and willingness to communicate negative results
  • Strong autonomy and self-direction
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Ability to defend technical recommendations with stakeholders
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Comfort working with ambiguity and large-scale datasets
  • Ability to balance model quality, cost, and scalability

Benefits:

  • Remote work option