Remote AI Data Scientist — LLMs, R&D, & Equity

AE Studio; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible schedules

Office access

Employee equity

R&D opportunities

Mentoring

Knowledge sharing

Annual team retreat

Job summary

AE Studio is seeking an applied data scientist to work on client engagements, internal product work, and exploratory research. You will use ML and statistical reasoning to solve practical problems, create meaningful products, and explore advanced AI topics with substantial independence.

You will design data-driven solutions, evaluate LLM-based systems, and collaborate with designers and engineers to turn research into usable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Fluency in Python and a track record delivering data-science work with measurable real-world impact.
• Experience across the LLM lifecycle: prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, multimodal workflows, fine-tuning, evaluation.
• Strong foundations in statistical and causal ML, experimental design, uncertainty, and model assessment.
• Deep learning with NLP or computer vision using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• Self-management, ownership, adaptability, and comfort with short iterative delivery cycles.
• Clear English communication, product and UX sensitivity, and effective collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver data-driven solutions for real-world product and client challenges.
• Build and evaluate systems using large language models, including prompt strategies, retrieval, vector search, multimodality, fine-tuning, and model evaluation.
• Use experimental design, causal reasoning, uncertainty quantification, and rigorous validation to guide technical decisions.
• Develop or train natural-language-processing and computer-vision models with modern deep-learning frameworks.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and others to turn research into usable outcomes.
• Identify and pursue promising research or product concepts for internal initiatives.

Skills

Python

Stakeholder Management

Machine Learning

LLM

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

AE Studio is seeking an applied data scientist to work on client engagements, internal product work, and exploratory research. You will use ML and statistical reasoning to solve practical problems, create meaningful products, and explore advanced AI topics with substantial independence.

You will design data-driven solutions, evaluate LLM-based systems, and collaborate with designers and engineers to turn research into usable outcomes.