Data Science Lead — Hands-On, Scale & Governance

Elliptic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Elliptic in Washington, DC is seeking a senior data scientist to lead the Intelligence team’s data science work while staying hands-on. You will set direction, own models, and contribute technically to ensure high-impact outcomes.

You will guide clustering, attribution, heuristics, and labeling, partnering with product and engineering to land data science as platform capability. This role emphasizes technical leadership with data-first problem solving.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data science teams in complex domains.
• Proven ability to own models and governance processes.
• Hands-on coding with a strong product focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the data science team within Elliptic's Intelligence group.
• Own the team's direction, performance and growth, including hiring.
• Define data collection and dataset quality standards for future models.
• Own model governance, validation, testing evidence and production deployments.
• Frame research questions, run experiments, and present defensible views.
• Stay technically hands-on and contribute code as needed.
• Maintain reliability of clustering, attribution, heuristics and labeling.
• Collaborate across functions to land data science as platform capability.
• Set the AI working standard for the team.

Skills

Lead data scientist

Hands-on coding

Model governance

Team growth

Tools

Python

SQL

ML frameworks

Job description

Elliptic in Washington, DC is seeking a senior data scientist to lead the Intelligence team’s data science work while staying hands-on. You will set direction, own models, and contribute technically to ensure high-impact outcomes.

You will guide clustering, attribution, heuristics, and labeling, partnering with product and engineering to land data science as platform capability. This role emphasizes technical leadership with data-first problem solving.