Remote Senior Data Scientist — Production ML Ownership

ActivTrak; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ActivTrak is expanding its Data Science team to ship production machine learning powering our workforce intelligence products. This hands-on role goes from problem formulation through a shipped, monitored model, not just notebooks.

You will own feature definition, model logic, and ongoing production performance, collaborating with Data Engineers to ensure durable deployment and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years bringing machine learning to production at scale with production ownership.
• Strong Python and production-grade software engineering practices.
• Experience with classification/prediction on behavioral event data and robust feature engineering.
• Strong SQL skills and direct work against production data sources.
• Experience monitoring model quality after deployment and handling drift.

Responsibilities

• Own problem formulation, feature definition, model and scoring logic, evaluation, and production performance.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers for durable, scalable deployment and reliability.
• Maintain ownership of the model delivering the intended outcomes and iterating over time.
• Operate as an individual contributor with no people-management responsibilities.

Skills

Production ML

Python

SQL

Feature engineering

Model monitoring

Testing & version control

Git

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ActivTrak is expanding its Data Science team to ship production machine learning powering our workforce intelligence products. This hands-on role goes from problem formulation through a shipped, monitored model, not just notebooks.

You will own feature definition, model logic, and ongoing production performance, collaborating with Data Engineers to ensure durable deployment and reliability.