Lead Data Scientist - Time-Series & Production ML

SmartRent; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartRent in Phoenix seeks a Lead Data Scientist to define and execute the analytics roadmap for next-generation offerings, focusing on decision-support models and ML for property operations within a Databricks environment.

You'll partner across Data, AI, Product, and Engineering to deliver measurable value, ship models to production, monitor performance, and elevate analytics maturity in a fast-evolving proptech platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data science with production models.
• Deep expertise in time series, anomaly detection and ensemble methods.
• Hands-on wrangling and modeling in Databricks.
• Advanced SQL and Python for large data sets.
• Strong experiment design and causal/impact measurement.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Frame business problems with Product and Revenue partners and turn them into modeling approaches with clear success metrics.
• Create data visualizations that support storytelling and inform predictive models.
• Build machine-learning models on large-scale time-series telemetry, including anomaly detection, failure prediction, and time-to-event models.
• Develop clean, well-documented code that promotes reuse and drives operational efficiency.
• Ship models to production on Databricks, and support their quality after launch: monitoring, diagnosing drift, and retraining.
• Partner with Engineering to scale and harden production workloads.
• Design experiments and impact analyses that tie model performance to customer and revenue outcomes.
• Set modeling standards and documentation practices for a growing team.

Skills

Time series

Anomaly detection

Ensemble modelling

SQL

Python

Experiment design

Communication

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Stats/Engineering or related quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Feature stores

Experiment management

Job description

SmartRent in Phoenix seeks a Lead Data Scientist to define and execute the analytics roadmap for next-generation offerings, focusing on decision-support models and ML for property operations within a Databricks environment.

You'll partner across Data, AI, Product, and Engineering to deliver measurable value, ship models to production, monitor performance, and elevate analytics maturity in a fast-evolving proptech platform.