Senior Data Scientist

Roadie, a UPS Company, is a logistics management and crowdsourced delivery platform. Founded in 2014, Roadie offers businesses fast, flexible and asset-light logistics solutions for last-mile delivery. Roadie enables local delivery to more than 95% of U.S. households by providing access to more than 200,000 independent drivers nationwide – allowing businesses to offer their customers delivery optionality for almost any industry, from airlines to artisans.

As a Senior Data Scientist at Roadie reporting directly to the CTO, you will use vast amounts of data generated by our core system and third-parties to develop advanced insights and build automated solutions by using machine learning and advanced statistics.  This is a highly collaborative role requiring cross-functional communication and collaboration.

What You’ll Do

• Full lifecycle data science from EDA to insight development and presentation to building MVPs of potential solutions

• Working with LLMs and prompt engineering to facilitate chatbot and chain of reasoning interactions within our Driver and Shipper platforms

• Evaluating efficacy of different AI models and upgrading as technology improves without a loss of function

• Coding in Python and machine learning technologies to include supervised and unsupervised learning techniques in environments like Jupyter or custom APIs

• Developing cogent presentations approachable to non-technical audiences

• Work collaboratively with Engineers, Product Managers, Customer Operations Partners, Marketing, and Data Analysts throughout the organization

• Advocate for data driven decision making throughout the company

What You Bring

• MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science or a related field

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or related

• A bias to action and strong work ethic who seeks direction and runs at problems with collaborative and communicative mindset

• Extensive hands-on experience with Python, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, SciPy, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras and related

• Experience with AI/LLM technologies and related

• Experience with machine learning algorithms (unsupervised and supervised) and statistical methods

• Experience with NLP techniques and vector databases

• Experience with evaluating model performance (ROC, F1, etc)

• Understanding of modern deep learning techniques such as CNN, RNN, LLMs

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Bonus

• Experience with Langchain, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex platforms

• Experience with advanced anomaly detection and forecasting techniques

• Experience with libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn, SciPy, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras and related

• Experience building machine learning pipelines and full loop machine learning systems

Why Roadie? 

• Competitive compensation packages 

• 100% covered health insurance premiums for yourself

• 401k with company match

• Tuition and student loan repayment assistance (that’s right - Roadie will contribute directly to your existing student loans!) 

• Flexible work schedule with unlimited PTO 

• Monthly 3-day weekends

• Monthly WFH stipend 

• Paid sabbatical leave - tenured team members are given time to rest, relax, and explore

• The technology you need to get the job done

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.