Data Scientist - AI, LLMs & Marketing Analytics

Centerfield; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Competitive salary

Semi-annual bonus

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) match

Job summary

Centerfield is seeking a Data Scientist with 2+ years of experience to turn complex data into models, insights, and recommendations that improve business performance. The role emphasizes customer behavior, marketing effectiveness, sales conversion, and forecasting in collaboration with stakeholders and engineers.

This position blends statistics, ML foundations and practical AI/LLM applications to drive measurable outcomes. The hybrid Playa Vista, CA office requires in-office presence Tue–Thu.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data science experience applying statistical analysis and machine learning to business problems.
• Strong SQL and Python for data preparation, analysis, modeling, and evaluation.
• Solid foundation in statistics and machine learning, including regression, classification, clustering, and hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities

• Partner with marketing, sales, and operations to define business problems, establish success metrics, and identify opportunities to improve conversion, revenue, and efficiency.
• Explore and combine data from multiple sources using SQL and Python. Investigate data quality issues, develop features, and document assumptions.
• Build and evaluate predictive models for use cases such as customer propensity, lifetime value, segmentation, and forecasting.
• Apply statistical analysis and experimentation to understand performance drivers, measure impact, and communicate uncertainty and limitations.
• Develop reusable analytical workflows and automate recurring analyses to support faster, more consistent decision-making.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate models into business workflows and monitor their performance over time.
• Apply AI and LLMs to use cases such as extracting insights from unstructured data and supporting analytical workflows. Evaluate output quality, reliability, cost, and appropriate handling of data.
• Present findings to technical and nontechnical audiences, explain trade-offs, and recommend clear next steps.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Machine Learning

Communication

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Job description

Centerfield is seeking a Data Scientist with 2+ years of experience to turn complex data into models, insights, and recommendations that improve business performance. The role emphasizes customer behavior, marketing effectiveness, sales conversion, and forecasting in collaboration with stakeholders and engineers.

This position blends statistics, ML foundations and practical AI/LLM applications to drive measurable outcomes. The hybrid Playa Vista, CA office requires in-office presence Tue–Thu.