Senior Data Scientist: AI-Driven Experiments & Impact

Linkedin3; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Annual bonus

Health and wellness programs

Job summary

LinkedIn in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced data scientist to design data-driven experiments, build causal analyses, and advance AI/LLM initiatives across product domains. You will partner with Applied Sciences, data engineering, and product teams to translate business questions into testable hypotheses, develop predictive models, and communicate insights to stakeholders.

This role emphasizes experimentation, AI tooling, and scalable data solutions, with collaboration across engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• 3+ years of experience with large datasets.
• Experience presenting data-driven recommendations.
• Proficiency in SQL.
• Experience in at least one programming language (R/Python/Scala).
• Experience with data visualization.
• Experience running platform experiments (A/B testing).

Responsibilities

• Designs and performs data-driven experiments and causal analyses to test and validate new product ideas or go-to-market strategies, develop ecosystem understanding, and monitor current products or systems.
• Evaluates A/B and causal tooling for discernable gaps and potentially partners with Applied Sciences teams to create A/B and causal test protocols and methods and analyze ramp performance to help optimize new and/or existing features or models.
• Leverage AI tools in day-to-day workflows to increase productivity.
• Partners with internal customers to translate business problems into data-verifiable hypotheses.
• Develops and employs models and causal analyses to determine what drives metric relationships and create actionable insights within moderately complex product domains.
• Independently diagnoses issues and identifies opportunities to drive improvements within AI/LLM systems.
• Prototypes data solutions, and/or collaborates with relevant partners to operationalize, build, and validate scalable tools/applications/solutions for use by internal customers to convert data into insights.
• Embeds data science best practices and principles through all phases of development of customized and/or scalable data solutions, providing feedback to junior team members.
• Communicates with relevant partners and internal customers on scoping data-driven investigations and experiments, contributing to recommendations for what best to prioritize to achieve intended strategy.
• Develops and runs predictive models for estimating the impact of initiatives on identified KPIs.
• Independently creates compelling, data-centric stories based on analytical findings to contribute to internal customers' decision-making.

Skills

Data storytelling

Experiment design

A/B testing

Communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Master's or Doctorate preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Scala

Job description

LinkedIn in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an experienced data scientist to design data-driven experiments, build causal analyses, and advance AI/LLM initiatives across product domains. You will partner with Applied Sciences, data engineering, and product teams to translate business questions into testable hypotheses, develop predictive models, and communicate insights to stakeholders.

This role emphasizes experimentation, AI tooling, and scalable data solutions, with collaboration across engineering