Staff Data Scientist: Agentic AI for Enterprise Insights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO and holidays

Flexible hybrid/remote work

Job summary

Emergence AI is seeking a Staff Applied Data Scientist in Irvine, CA to define how AI agents investigate enterprise data, explain reasoning, and support better business decisions. You will combine statistical modeling, machine learning, and LLM-powered workflows to transform messy enterprise data into intelligent systems that uncover insights and actionable recommendations.

This hands-on role carries significant technical ownership: you’ll take customer problems from discovery through production

Qualifications

• Significant experience building production machine learning or applied data science systems.
• Strong Python skills and experience with modern machine learning and data science libraries.
• Deep expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, experimentation, and model evaluation.
• Experience working with large, complex enterprise or operational datasets.
• A track record of taking ambiguous technical problems from discovery through production deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build the statistical and machine learning capabilities that power autonomous AI agents operating on complex enterprise data.
• Design models for anomaly detection, forecasting, optimization, root-cause analysis, and decision support.
• Analyze large, multi-source enterprise datasets spanning structured, unstructured, operational, and time-series data.
• Partner with AI engineers to build agentic workflows that can query data, evaluate evidence, generate insights, and support customer decisions.
• Translate ambiguous customer challenges into scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
• Develop reusable analytical capabilities that become core platform features used across multiple customer deployments.
• Establish best practices for experimentation, model evaluation, governance, and operational reliability.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists while helping raise the technical bar across the organization.

Skills

Production ML systems

Python programming

Statistical modeling

Experimentation & evaluation

Communication skills

Mentoring

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python libraries

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

MLOps tooling

Job description

Emergence AI is seeking a Staff Applied Data Scientist in Irvine, CA to define how AI agents investigate enterprise data, explain reasoning, and support better business decisions. You will combine statistical modeling, machine learning, and LLM-powered workflows to transform messy enterprise data into intelligent systems that uncover insights and actionable recommendations.

This hands-on role carries significant technical ownership: you’ll take customer problems from discovery through production