Senior Data Scientist - Production AI & Multimodal ML

Kiavi Funding, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiavi Funding, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and apply modern ML/AI across products and business problems. You will work on document intelligence, multimodal systems, and foundation models with focus on reliable, governed, and production‑ready solutions.

The role spans framing problems, building datasets and pipelines, running large‑scale experiments, and delivering reusable AI capabilities that scale across teams. Strong Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing machine learning solutions.
• Strong programming and software‑engineering skills, particularly in Python.
• Strong foundations in ML, statistics, algorithms, data structures, and experimental design.
• Hands‑on experience with deep‑learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience training or fine‑tuning transformer‑based, vision, or multimodal models.
• Experience working with GPUs and understanding practical constraints of model training and inference.
• Ability to work with large, complex, and imperfect datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to own open‑ended problems from initial investigation through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to generalize successful solutions into reusable capabilities.
• Strong communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify high‑impact opportunities for machine learning and AI in partnership with product, engineering, operations, and business teams.
• Design, train, fine‑tune, and evaluate machine learning and deep‑learning models.
• Work with foundation models across language, vision, and multimodal applications.
• Develop robust datasets, features, training pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.
• Run efficient experiments on GPU infrastructure and improve model quality, speed, and cost.
• Compare alternative modeling approaches and make clear recommendations based on empirical results and business impact.
• Build reusable modeling components, evaluation frameworks, and implementation patterns that accelerate work across teams and projects.
• Establish clear interfaces and standards that allow other teams to adopt proven AI capabilities without rebuilding the underlying modeling work.
• Build models and supporting systems that are reproducible, testable, and suitable for production use.
• Partner with ML and software engineers on deployment, monitoring, reliability, and ongoing model improvement.
• Communicate results, limitations, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with advances in machine learning and determine when emerging techniques are mature enough to create practical value.

Skills

Python programming

ML/AI fundamentals

PyTorch or TensorFlow

Experiment design

GPU workflows

Education

Bachelor’s or higher in CS/ML/EE/Applied Math

Master’s or PhD in CS/ML or related

Job description

Kiavi Funding, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and apply modern ML/AI across products and business problems. You will work on document intelligence, multimodal systems, and foundation models with focus on reliable, governed, and production‑ready solutions.

The role spans framing problems, building datasets and pipelines, running large‑scale experiments, and delivering reusable AI capabilities that scale across teams. Strong Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow skills are essential.