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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