Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cordial is a company focused on enhancing human-centered marketing through technology. They are seeking a Data Scientist - Production Engineering to optimize, operationalize, and scale data science models and systems, working closely with data scientists and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Optimize existing data science models and systems for performance, scalability, and reliability
- Translate research-grade or prototype data science code into production-ready implementations
- Work with large datasets and improve efficiency related to memory usage, runtime, and compute cost
- Contribute to and maintain production data pipelines and workflows
- Collaborate closely with other data scientists to preserve model intent, correctness, and assumptions while improving implementation quality
- Debug and resolve issues in production or near-production data science workflows
- Improve robustness, monitoring, and maintainability of deployed models and pipelines
- Support iterative model improvements and system evolution as business needs change
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, plus 3+ years of experience working with real-world, industry, or production data in a data science, applied ML, or analytics role
- Demonstrated experience contributing to production data science or analytics systems, not only exploratory or academic projects
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience writing maintainable, production-quality code
- Experience working with large datasets and performance-sensitive workflows
- Prior experience with data pipelines and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Dagster, Airflow, etc.)
- Cloud platform expertise, particularly AWS services (Glue, Athena, ECS, S3 Tables, etc.) for scalable data processing and model deployments
- Hands-on experience with modern data warehouse solutions (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.) including query optimization, clustering strategies, and cost management
- Experience with big data technologies and distributed computing frameworks for handling enterprise-scale event datasets
- Solid understanding of data science fundamentals, including statistics and modeling concepts, sufficient to work closely with research-oriented data scientists
- Ability to work independently and ramp up quickly in an existing codebase and system
- Experience working in small, fast-moving teams where ownership and autonomy are expected
Benefits
- Equity and bonus
- A robust benefit plan (medical/dental/vision/life)
- 401k match
- Flexible time off and paid company holidays
- An annual company conference
- Childcare and continued education yearly reimbursements
Company Overview
Cordial is a cross-channel marketing and data management platform that helps marketers use all of their data to connect with customers. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.cordial.com.