Sr. Data Scientist II

POSITION

Sr. Data Scientist II

Raleigh, NC or remote EST

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in data science, machine learning, or NLP, including hands-on experience developing LLM-based applications.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience with SQL and structured or semi-structured data, such as JSON and XML.
• Practical experience with prompt design, structured outputs, retrieval, and systematic LLM evaluation.
• Understanding of statistical evaluation, train/validation/test separation, data leakage, and appropriate performance metrics.
• Experience using Git, debugging existing code, and writing automated tests.
• Ability to communicate findings clearly, incorporate feedback, and proactively raise delivery risks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with traditional machine learning, including feature engineering, classification, tree-based models, and imbalanced datasets.
• Familiarity with scikit-learn, PyTorch, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience fine-tuning transformer models for classification, information extraction, or sequence labeling.
• Familiarity with AWS, particularly S3 and EC2, and Linux or GPU-based training environments.
• Experience with legal documents, editorial workflows, or other accuracy-sensitive domains.