Staff Data Scientist, Entity Resolution — Onsite LA, Equity

Enigma; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Additional benefits

Job summary

Enigma is seeking a Staff/Senior Data Scientist to join the Entity Resolution team in Los Angeles, CA (onsite). You will design end-to-end data solutions, improve accuracy and scalability, and contribute to customer-facing outputs on a robust data platform.

The role requires 6–8+ years of experience, a proven tech-lead track record, and an advanced degree in a quantitative field. Databricks, Spark SQL, PySpark, Python, and ML/AI proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of industry experience across statistics, experiment design, and distributed machine learning.
• Experience serving as a tech lead or mentoring other data scientists.
• Strong communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bias toward shipping: learns fast, delivers real progress for customers, and improves iteratively.
• An advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., CS, Math, Physics) or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer goals into working solutions using large-scale data transformation, sound statistics, and high-quality code.
• Deliver most work in Databricks with Spark SQL and PySpark, supported by statistical tooling and ML/AI when needed.
• Maintain rigorous standards for analysis and model development to ensure results are high-quality and reproducible.
• Validate entity resolution and related outputs against ground truth using repeatable strategies.
• Own problems end to end, from raw source data to models and scalable pipelines through to the customer interface.

Skills

Statistics

Experiment design

Distributed ML

Leadership

Communication

Customer impact

Bias toward shipping

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative disciplines

Tools

Databricks

Spark SQL

PySpark

Python

ML/AI

Job description

Enigma is seeking a Staff/Senior Data Scientist to join the Entity Resolution team in Los Angeles, CA (onsite). You will design end-to-end data solutions, improve accuracy and scalability, and contribute to customer-facing outputs on a robust data platform.

The role requires 6–8+ years of experience, a proven tech-lead track record, and an advanced degree in a quantitative field. Databricks, Spark SQL, PySpark, Python, and ML/AI proficiency are essential.