Senior AI Data Scientist — Agentic AI Workflows (Hybrid)

Splash; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (2 days in office)

Job summary

Cvent is seeking a Data Scientist to advance AI‑driven data science at the intersection of ML, LLMs, and automation. You will work with data, SQL, and Python to design, build, and evaluate AI systems. You will develop evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows, run experiments, and collaborate with product and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes critical thinking about AI outputs and reliability. Hybrid: 2 days in office; sponsorship not offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent.
• Master’s degree preferred in Statistics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in data science, machine learning, or a closely related quantitative field.
• Strong conceptual understanding of statistics, including distributions, uncertainty, hypothesis testing, regression, experimentation, and causal thinking.
• Strong conceptual understanding of machine learning, including model evaluation, overfitting, feature engineering, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and interpretability.
• Proficiency with SQL.
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows.
• Some understanding of GCP or cloud-based data and AI infrastructure.
• Experience working with LLMs, agents, or AI-assisted workflows. 1+ year of hands‑on experience in a professional or research setting preferred.
• Ability to think critically about AI outputs, limitations, hallucinations, evaluation, and reliability.
• Interest in using AI not only as a productivity tool, but as a system-building capability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data with statistics and ML to guide decisions.
• Build LLM-powered workflows, agents, and AI automations.
• Design AI systems for prompts, tools, workflows, and tests.
• Develop evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows.
• Use SQL to extract and analyze data from business systems.
• Collaborate with Git-based workflows and engineering teams.
• Leverage GCP services like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI.
• Experiment with Claude Code, Codex, or similar tools.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks with agents.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders.

Skills

Statistics

Machine Learning

SQL

Data Analysis

Critical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/Statistics

Master’s degree in Statistics/Data Science/AI/ML

Tools

Git

BigQuery

Vertex AI

Claude Code

Codex

Cloud Storage

Job description

Cvent is seeking a Data Scientist to advance AI‑driven data science at the intersection of ML, LLMs, and automation. You will work with data, SQL, and Python to design, build, and evaluate AI systems. You will develop evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows, run experiments, and collaborate with product and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes critical thinking about AI outputs and reliability. Hybrid: 2 days in office; sponsorship not offered.