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    Data Scientist

    sonatype
    Atlanta, GA - RemoteUS - Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    6 days ago
    Data ScientistAIMachine LearningGenAIPythonMLopsRemote

    Requirements

    • 5+ years of hands-on experience in applied data science, machine learning, AI engineering, or AI research
    • Computer Science or equivalent technical degree strongly preferred
    • Strong Python skills and practical experience with data and AI libraries/platforms such as Databricks, and LLM APIs, scikit-learn
    • Experience building and shipping ML or GenAI applications—from early prototype through usable internal or customer-facing workflows
    • Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, including OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, Hugging Face, and open-weight models
    • Ability to select models and design effective LLM applications using prompting, context management, structured outputs, retrieval, and tool use
    • Experience building agentic or multi-step AI workflows with LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar orchestration frameworks
    • Strong evaluation mindset: defining useful quality metrics, building representative evaluation datasets, assessing reliability, and making data-driven tradeoffs
    • Comfortable working with large, messy, structured, and unstructured data to produce features, insights, and clear visualizations
    • Proficiency with Git, testing, code review, and collaborative software-development practices
    • Practical, balanced judgment: comfortable exploring emerging AI capabilities while building maintainable, secure, dependable systems
    • Proactive and accountable, with strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical partners

    What You'll Do

    • Lead applied AI projects from concept to impact — prototype, validate, and help teams deploy practical ML and GenAI solutions
    • Act as an internal consultant across product, engineering, security, and research teams: scope problems, evaluate approaches, and advise on ML/AI best practices and productive use of generative technologies
    • Lead the research, development, and deployment of models for use cases such as malicious behavior detection, anomaly detection, and fraud analysis — using techniques ranging from classical ML to LLMs, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows
    • Design robust experiments and establish evaluation pipelines for model reliability, accuracy, and business impact (cross-validation, drift monitoring, ground-truth evaluation)
    • Bridge research and production: translate research insights into scalable APIs, tools, or workflows that enable other teams to adopt AI effectively
    • Explore new techniques (LLMs, embeddings models, RAG, agentic workflows) to enhance developer and security experiences
    • Communicate technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through presentations, documentation, and collaboration; mentor peers and help elevate the organization's AI literacy and capabilities
    • Partner with our data governance team to ensure compliance with data-privacy regulations and ethical considerations when working with customer data

    Nice to Have

    • Strong MLOps experience, including MLflow or comparable tooling, experiment tracking, reproducible pipelines, model/application versioning, CI/CD, serving, and production monitoring
    • Experience operating ML or GenAI systems at scale, including observability, tracing, incident response, and data or model-drift detection
    • Experience with Databricks ML, AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, or similar managed ML platforms
    • Familiarity with MCP, agent-tool integrations, LLM guardrails, and production safety practices
    • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, or Codex
    • Exposure to cybersecurity, fraud detection, anomaly detection, code analysis, or software supply-chain security
    • Experience with PySpark and production data pipelines
    • Experience working within a software product company or SaaS

    Benefits

    • Parental leave
    • Diversity and inclusion working groups
    • Flexible working practices
    • Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)

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