WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- From Raw Data to Better Decisions
Own the Outcome: Take an ambiguous customer problem, decide whether ML is even the right answer, build it, and stay with it until customers are acting on it.
Learn the Domain: Get fluent in the semantics of how our customers operate—what a route, a crew, or a service history actually means. A model that is accurate but wrong about the domain creates nothing.
Build the Data You Need: When the features don't exist, create them in Snowflake and dbt rather than waiting for someone else to.
Prove It and Make It FeltMake the Value Legible: Decide how a prediction reaches the customer so they understand it, trust it, and act on it—then report realized impact back to Product and the business in numbers that hold up.
Measure Honestly: Define offline and online evaluation for model quality, drift, and reliability, and design the A/B tests or causal analyses that prove a feature improved customer outcomes.
DeliverShip and Operate: Deployment, testing, versioning, monitoring, and drift detection. Delivery is part of the job, not a handoff.
Embed with Product: Partner with Product Managers and Software Engineers to put ML inside real product workflows—and say clearly when ML isn't the answer.
WHO YOU ARE:
- The Owner: You measure your work by whether customers made better decisions, not by whether the model shipped.
- Closer to the Data and the Customer: You'd rather spend a week understanding what the data means than a week tuning a model. You know the domain is the hard part.
- A Multi-Disciplinary Operator: You'll chase down the data yourself when it isn't ready, and build the pipeline if that's what delivery requires. You prioritize usability, "Time to Insight," and customer trust as much as you do code efficiency.
- We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. If you have shipped a model you are proud of, we want to hear from you! HOW WE WORK:
We build with coding agents. You set direction and targets, review output critically, and build the harnesses—scaffolding, context, tests, review loops—that make the next model faster to ship. The leverage is in the verification: the backtests, eval scaffolding, and data checks that make generated work safe to trust.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING:
- Experience: 5+ years in applied data science, ML engineering, or data engineering that included owning models in production—including at least one model you built and shipped into a real product. B2B SaaS experience is a strong plus.
- Technical Core: Strong Python and applied ML libraries for tabular problems (scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM, statsmodels or Prophet). Solid SQL expertise is required.
- ML & Modeling Depth: Depth in supervised learning, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, or optimization. You have modeled messy operational data, not benchmark datasets.
- Data & Delivery: You build the data you need and ship what you build—dbt and Snowflake modeling, feature pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and drift detection. We're on AWS.
- Measurement & Narrative: You've quantified the business impact of a model you shipped—adoption, outcome, dollars—and presented it to people who were never going to read your notebook.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs clearly to product, engineering, and non-technical business stakeholders.
BONUS POINTS FOR:
Working With Agents: You've used coding agents on real modeling or engineering work, you can tell correct output from merely plausible output, and you invest in the scaffolding that makes the next model faster to ship.
Decision Intelligence: Experience with decision intelligence, forecasting, customer behavior modeling, workforce/route optimization, or operational intelligence products.
Prior experience as a senior or lead scientist or engineer responsible for guiding technical direction.
LLM or agentic workflows shipped into a product
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in applied data science, ML engineering, or data engineering
- Experience owning models in production
- At least one model built and shipped into a real product
- Strong Python skills
- Experience with applied machine learning libraries for tabular problems, including scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, statsmodels, or Prophet
- Solid SQL expertise
- Depth in supervised learning, forecasting, ranking, recommendation, or optimization
- Experience modeling messy operational data
- Experience with dbt and Snowflake data modeling
- Experience building feature pipelines, deploying models, monitoring, and detecting drift
- AWS experience
- Experience quantifying business impact of a shipped model
- Excellent communication skills with technical, product, engineering, and non-technical stakeholders
- B2B SaaS experience
- Experience using coding agents for modeling or engineering work
- Experience with decision intelligence, forecasting, customer behavior modeling, workforce or route optimization, or operational intelligence products
- Prior senior or lead scientist or engineer experience guiding technical direction
- Experience shipping LLM or agentic workflows into a product
What We Do
WorkWave empowers service-oriented companies to reach their full potential through scalable, cloud-based software solutions that support every stage of their business life-cycle. At WorkWave, we think about business the way you do. We know that for service-oriented companies, there are many steps of your business journey - from signing new customers, delivering service in the field, to invoicing, and everything in between. We also know that gaining new customers requires even more: brand awareness, digital marketing and lead generation.








