Remote Data Science Team Lead - Equity & Impact

Awake Solutions; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Research budget

Conference support

Learning & mentorship programs

Remote or hybrid work

Job summary

Awake Solutions is seeking a lead data science role to guide a team from research through production deployment. You will shape technical direction, evaluation methods, and reproducible pipelines while mentoring researchers and ensuring measurable product impact.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data science, strong ML fundamentals, and experience with Python ML tools. Remote or hybrid work with equity and growth opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in data science or ML with production-model experience.
• Strong statistical and ML fundamentals are required.
• Hands-on with Python ML tools such as scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Familiar with MLOps and cloud infrastructure for serving and monitoring.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to explain trade-offs to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Oversee ML projects from research to production release.
• Establish evaluation and monitoring for model performance and drift.
• Collaborate with engineers to build reproducible pipelines and infra.
• Mentor data scientists and foster a research-driven, impact-focused team.
• Design experiments to measure effects on product metrics.

Skills

Leadership

ML fundamentals

Python ML tools

MLOps / cloud

Communication

Tools

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Awake Solutions is seeking a lead data science role to guide a team from research through production deployment. You will shape technical direction, evaluation methods, and reproducible pipelines while mentoring researchers and ensuring measurable product impact.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data science, strong ML fundamentals, and experience with Python ML tools. Remote or hybrid work with equity and growth opportunities are provided.