Founding Data Scientist for AI-Driven Sales

Sela AI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage (top-of-market)

Dental & Vision (top)

401(k) Matching (top)

Unlimited PTO

Snacks, team lunches & dinners

Job summary

Sela AI in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Data Scientist to help build the top‑performing AI sales agent for mortgage calls. You will design experiments, analyze hundreds of millions of calls, and translate insights into improvements for our real-time, multi-agent platform.

Join a fast-growing startup with equity, top-market health/dental/vision, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO, and a hybrid in-office schedule four days a week in SF with a remote day on Wednesdays.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, experimentation, or a closely related field.
• Strong statistical foundations and experience designing and analyzing experiments.
• Strong Python and SQL skills and the ability to work with very large datasets.
• Ability to take an ambiguous problem, figure out what to measure, and turn the results into actionable recommendations.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to work closely with engineers on experimentation systems.
• High agency and the ability to operate without an established playbook.
• Experience designing experimentation or optimization systems at scale (nice to have).
• Experience with causal inference, personalization, ranking, or recommendation systems (nice to have).
• Experience working with LLMs, speech, or conversational data (nice to have).
• Experience at a fast-growing startup or as an early data science hire (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Experimentation across hundreds of millions of sales calls, from identifying opportunities to measuring results.
• The methodology behind how we design experiments, measure outcomes, and make decisions.
• Turning insights from our calls into improvements to our AI sales agents.
• Ensuring our experimentation framework can support increasingly sophisticated experiments as we scale.
• As our first data scientist, defining how data science is done at Sela and eventually the team we build.

Skills

Python

SQL

Experimentation

Statistics

Data analysis

Job description

Sela AI in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Data Scientist to help build the top‑performing AI sales agent for mortgage calls. You will design experiments, analyze hundreds of millions of calls, and translate insights into improvements for our real-time, multi-agent platform.

Join a fast-growing startup with equity, top-market health/dental/vision, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO, and a hybrid in-office schedule four days a week in SF with a remote day on Wednesdays.