Staff Data Scientist - Infrastructure

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering - Pipeline

Databricks is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join their Data Team, focusing on building data-driven products and tooling to inform decision-making and integrate with their core platform. The role involves applying Data Science/ML in production, collaborating with stakeholders, and mentoring junior scientists.

What you'd actually do

  1. Inform decision making by building robust data science tooling for business leaders, analysts, and other data scientists.
  2. Work closely with Data Platform and Product Engineering teams to integrate data science tooling with existing Data team offerings and the core product
  3. Lead insight generation for top company priorities, and key Engineering initiatives (reliability, and efficiency).
  4. Gather changing requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  5. Mentor and guide junior data scientists on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of data science, machine learning, advanced analytics experience
  • Extensive experience in applying Data Science / ML in production to build data-driven products
  • Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of Senior level stakeholders
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity in fast paced environments
  • Strong coding skills in Python and SQL
  • Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark
  • M.S. or Ph.D. in quantitative fields

Nice to have

  • familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment

What the JD emphasized

  • production ML
  • data-driven products
  • reliability
  • efficiency

Other signals

  • production ML
  • data-driven products
  • data science tooling