Data Scientist

About the role

Greater Boston Area

Role Description

This is a full-time Data Scientist role with Newton Research, Inc., working from our offices in Needham, MA. You will develop production-level models and algorithms, analyze data, design experiments, and interpret results. More importantly, you will work with engineering to encode those abilities into software and train Newton to think like a data scientist. The data science team is small, so your work reaches customers quickly and your judgment shapes the product. We value self-motivated individuals who collaborate well across teams and can present and defend findings to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build production-level models and algorithms for media planning, audience, measurement and yield problems
• Design and interpret experiments, including deciding what a result does and does not support
• Work with engineering to encode your judgment into Newton's agents
• Contribute to the evals and benchmarks that tell us whether an agent's analysis is correct, not just plausible

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• Strong foundation in data analysis, statistical modeling, causal inference, and machine learning concepts
• Ability to evaluate a model, a causal experiment, or an AI-generated analysis and identify what it measures, where it fails, and how to verify it
• Proficiency in Python, including data science libraries like pandas and scikit-learn
• Strong SQL and experience working with relational databases
• Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience writing code that ships to production, or with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift, is a plus

Base Salary Range

$135,000-$165,000 + Equity