Staff Applied Data Scientist — Enterprise AI & Insights

Emergence; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Flexible hybrid/remote work

Compensation generous

Job summary

Emergence AI is seeking a Staff Applied Data Scientist to define how AI agents investigate enterprise data, explain reasoning, and support better business decisions. You will combine statistical modeling, ML, and LLM-powered workflows to transform messy data into intelligent systems across customer deployments.

This hands-on staff-level role involves ownership from discovery to production, building reusable capabilities that become core features of Emergence AI's platform, and mentoring

Qualifications

• Significant experience building production ML or applied data science systems.
• Strong Python skills and ML libraries.
• Deep expertise in statistical modeling and experimentation.
• Experience with large enterprise datasets.
• Track record of production deployment of complex problems.
• Excellent communication with engineers, customers, and executives.
• Collaborative mindset with mentoring passion.

Responsibilities

• Build statistical and ML capabilities powering autonomous AI agents on enterprise data.
• Design models for anomaly detection, forecasting, and decision support.
• Analyze large multi-source enterprise datasets (structured, unstructured, time-series).
• Partner with AI engineers to build agentic workflows that query data and generate insights.
• Translate ambiguous problems into scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
• Develop reusable analytical capabilities used across deployments.
• Establish best practices for experimentation, governance, and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists to raise technical bar.

Skills

Python

Statistical Modeling

Machine Learning

LLM Workflows

Data Analysis

Communication

Education

MS in CS/Statistics

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

ADK

AWS

Job description

Emergence AI is seeking a Staff Applied Data Scientist to define how AI agents investigate enterprise data, explain reasoning, and support better business decisions. You will combine statistical modeling, ML, and LLM-powered workflows to transform messy data into intelligent systems across customer deployments.

This hands-on staff-level role involves ownership from discovery to production, building reusable capabilities that become core features of Emergence AI's platform, and mentoring