Applied AI Data Scientist (Brazil)

Highlights

• Work on a mix of client projects and internal research initiatives with real impact.
• Help build meaningful products that increase agency for all conscious beings.
• Propose high-impact research that could become prioritized skunkworks ventures.

What they offer

• Flexible schedules focused on outcomes
• Competitive pay with performance-based raises and employee equity program
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge R&D and propose skunkworks projects
• Supportive, collaborative team with mentorship and knowledge sharing
• Weekly knowledge-sharing talks and annual team retreat
• Equity in client projects and Skunkworks ventures

Ideal candidate

Adaptable problem-solver who thrives on challenging missions and collaborates with humor. You care about AI alignment and building user-friendly products that expand human agency.

Requirements

• Fluency in Python
• Experience with LLM lifecycle: prompt design/engineering, RAG, few-shot, CoT, vector databases, multimodality, fine-tuning and evaluation
• Proven data science experience as key contributor to impactful projects with real-life outcomes
• Statistical and causal ML fundamentals: experimental design, uncertainty quantification and rigorous model evaluation across tabular, time-series and fine-tuning tasks
• Deep learning experience building/training NLP or computer vision models with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX
• Agile and AI-powered development: lean Kanban/Scrum and tools like Cursor to prototype and ship quickly
• Growth mindset valuing progress over perfection
• Self-management with ownership and independent delivery
• Product and UX understanding with focus on seamless user-friendly experience
• Effective communication in English