Senior Data Scientist Melbourne

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

How you can help make a better world of work

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who would like to be part of our journey to create differentiating AI powered features in our world leading product set. This means you will get involved in defining and designing solutions for the problems we need to solve, exploring and uplifting the data quality and enrichment, as well as working on our AI tools, platforms and products. You will leverage a data science approach to product design, experimentation, metrics definition, evaluation and monitoring to prove value for our customers.

Data Scientists at Culture Amp are specialists who work with others to bring their expertise and views to positively impact and support the delivery of value for our customers.

You will:

• Work with Machine Learning engineers and other data scientists to develop, test and deploy AI powered features.
• Solve real world challenges with an ethical and human centric approach.
• Develop robust data pipelines, LLM based enrichment processes, and RAG systems.
• Participate in broader conversations and skills sharing with engineers, people scientists and data scientists.
• Stay up to date with current research, literature and provider offerings to enable the pragmatic application to Culture Amp's customer needs.

You have:

• Experience designing and building LLM powered conversational systems in a software product setting.
• Comfortable with SQL, preferably with an enterprise database system like Redshift, Postgres. Ideally experience with data processing tools like DBT and Dask.
• Experience in Python data science space - LangChain, LangSmith, pandas, numpy, sci kit learn, scipy, hugging face etc.
• Understanding of statistical and machine learning models. Knowledge of experimental design, statistical testing and model validation.
• Experience in data visualization tools such as plotly, seaborn, streamlit etc would be an advantage.
• Understanding of data modelling and exposure to tools like metaflow or airflow is desirable.
• Understanding of common software practices like version control, continuous deployment, and testing.
• Industry, or equivalent academic experience in researching and developing Generative AI powered Products and services.

You are:

• Curious and have a learning mindset.
• A pragmatic, critical thinker, asking the right questions, and backing up assertions with logic and data.
• Able to make the complex simple, to persuasively communicate with a range of stakeholders.
• Excited about making data and AI products that have real impact in people’s lives.
• Someone who shares our passion for making a better world of work.
• Not afraid to learn through making mistakes and asking for help.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success.
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally.
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people.
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work.
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection.
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time.
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year.
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp.
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work.
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office.
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only).

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work).

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

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