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Forward Deployed - Data Scientist

Fundamental · US (remote)

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Deploy NEXUS, the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model, into production.
  • Prove ROI by moving customer use cases from science experiments to impact.
  • Translate field insights into roadmap with research and product teams.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation with salary and equity
  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision and 401K
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Relocation support to join the team in an office location

Ideal candidate

A statistically fluent communicator who thrives at the customer frontier, turning messy business problems into production ROI and bridging technical and executive stakeholders.

Requirements

  • PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or equivalent deep statistical literacy
  • 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
  • Master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ML algorithm and validation strategies
  • Deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
  • Demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem
  • Strong communication skills with ability to translate architectural nuances into clear business value
  • Experience with PyTorch and cloud-native ML pipelines (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, or Staff Data Scientist
  • Industry-based subject matter expertise

Lab profile

About Fundamental

AI research lab building NEXUS, a large tabular model for enterprise decision-making and prediction.

What they build

  • NEXUS Large Tabular Model (LTM)

Known for

  • Enterprise decision-making AI
  • Large Tabular Models for structured records
  • Trusted by Fortune 100 companies

Key facts

  • $275m in funding from leading investors
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