Senior Data Scientist - Production ML & Time Series

SmartRent; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with employer contributions

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SmartRent seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to define and execute analytics roadmaps in an onsite Dallas role. You will lead end-to-end model development from framing problems to deploying in Databricks, driving measurable outcomes for customers and the business.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, build predictive models (time-series, anomaly detection, ensembles), and translate insights into actions. Strong SQL/Python and production experience are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of data science experience, including models in production that customers rely on.
• Deep expertise in time series, anomaly detection, and ensemble modeling.
• Hands-on Databricks experience, including feature stores and experiment management.
• Advanced SQL and Python for large, complex datasets.
• Strong ability to design experiments and measure causal or impact effects.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product and Revenue to frame business problems and define success metrics.
• Build data visuals to communicate insights and guide model development.
• Develop machine-learning models using large-scale time-series telemetry, including anomaly detection and time-to-event modeling.
• Write clean, well-documented code for reuse and efficiency.
• Deploy models to production in Databricks and monitor performance, drift, and retraining.
• Partner with Engineering to scale production workloads.
• Design experiments and impact analyses linking model performance to outcomes.
• Set modeling standards and documentation practices for the data science team.

Skills

Time series

Anomaly detection

Ensemble modeling

SQL

Python

Experiment design

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Math/Statistics/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Git

Terraform

Feature stores

Job description

SmartRent seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to define and execute analytics roadmaps in an onsite Dallas role. You will lead end-to-end model development from framing problems to deploying in Databricks, driving measurable outcomes for customers and the business.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, build predictive models (time-series, anomaly detection, ensembles), and translate insights into actions. Strong SQL/Python and production experience are required.