Senior Data Scientist at Fountain

Fountain is enterprise software that accelerates global high volume hiring. Our customers hire millions of hourly workers annually in 78 countries. Job seekers often struggle to get connected with companies seeking hourly workers due to inefficiencies in their hiring processes, and Fountain makes it easier for them to get offers for work quickly. Getting hired fast eases some of the financial instability millions of families face.

Fountain is a Remote-first company that embraces a work from anywhere policy and offers flexibility on location, so our employees feel free to enjoy the world. Fountain is widely trusted by leading organizations, including Chipotle, StitchFix, GoPuff and Just Eat Takeaway.

We just 4.5Xed in valuation in our Series C, which was led by Softbank and B Capital. We plan on keeping this hyper-growth going this year! Come join us on this rocket ship!

In this role you will partner with our internal teams and current customers. Your specialization in Natural Language Processing / Deep Learning to solve a variety of practical challenges in building chatbot. Your deep curiosity and tenacity, combined with business judgment will help you as you build end-to-end products that bring actively contribute to Fountain’s rapid growth.

Reporting to the Director, Data Science, you will have the opportunity to showcase your work to the leadership team. 


What you'll be doing:

You will need to analyze problems, design solutions, deploy solutions as inference APIs / pipelines, maintain solutions and improve models
You will have technical discussions with teammates and ML Engineers to get more help with technical challenges and to share your findings with others. You will also share your project updates, timeline estimation and resource requirements with the Product Manager to ensure on-time deliverables
Program using R, Python, Javascript, Java, or C++
Perform big data modeling work: BigQuery, Pig, Scala, Spark
Fish for data: SQL, Pandas, PostgreSQL
Deploy Data Science solutions: Java, Python, C++
Can communicate concisely and persuasively with marketers, engineers and product managers.



What you should bring:

Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or other relevant fields
Two years working experience with a programming language such as Python
At least one year working experience in Natural Language Processing / Deep Learning related fields
Basic Natural Language Processing techniques, such as Tokenization, Name Entity Recognition, and Text Classification, etc
Familiar with the stat-of-the-art deep models such as BERT, GTP and beyond
Experience in some of the following domains: language model / text classification / text clustering / summarization generation / intent prediction
Familiar with machine translation / knowledge graph / reinforcement learning is a bonus
Significant prior success as a Data, Product, or Decision Scientist working on challenging problems at scale
3+ years of industry experience, with expertise in Data Science, Business Analytics, or Data Analysis
Strong ability to code in Python
Have full stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productionization, and monitoring



Nice to have:
Advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.)


Amazing Perks & Benefits we provide for our employees include (but are not limited to):
Flexible PTO & Work Hours
"Work from Anywhere" Policy
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
HSA & FSA (Medical and Dependent Care)
Life Insurance & STD/LTD
16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for Birth/Adoption
Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
Phone Stipend
Remote IT/Home Office Stipend
Learning and Development Reimbursements
Fun, interactive and inclusive team-building events, off-sites, and happy hours
401K Plan

Even if you do not meet all the requirements above, we still encourage you to apply for this position. While we try to be thorough with our prerequisites, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points. 

We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.

*Fountain is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer—M/F/D/V*