Senior Data Scientist, AI Evaluation

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AlpacaBrokerage infrastructure
Remote - AmericasFull-TimeSenior
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Experience
6–10 years in quantitative data science or ML, with focused experience in measurement or evaluation.
Required Skills
PythonSQLMachine Learning

Requirements

  • Bring 6–10 years in quantitative data science or ML, with focused experience in measurement or evaluation.
  • Demonstrate quantitative measurement rigor, such as LLM/model evaluation, metric validation, or experimentation.
  • Have a strong statistical and machine learning foundation.
  • Treat evaluations as experiments, including sample sizing, confidence intervals, significance, and handling non-determinism.
  • Validate automated graders against human ground truth.
  • Be proficient in Python and SQL.
  • Have experience evaluating models in production environments.
  • Use strong judgment to define quality metrics and ground truth for ambiguous outputs.
  • Communicate and collaborate across technical teams and leadership.
  • A quantitative degree is a plus; equivalent industry experience is welcome.

Responsibilities

  • Define ground truth, metrics, and scoring methods for models and agents.
  • Build repeatable evaluation loops to track quality over time and catch regressions before release.
  • Work with engineering and analytics engineering to operationalize evaluation harnesses.
  • Translate evaluation results into actionable recommendations for system improvements.
  • Establish evaluation guidelines, documentation, and review practices.
  • Foster evaluation best practices and measurable AI quality across the team.
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