Principal Data Engineer - Laramie

Sturdy AI is looking for a self-directed Data Engineer / Scientist who excels at practically applying machine learning techniques toward enriching the communications content we capture. You will lead Sturdy’s Data Engineering team as well as architect and build our data engineering infrastructure, both tooling and production inference. You and the Data Engineering team will be responsible for generating, enhancing, and tracking the performance of models that run in our SaaS business application. For more information about SturdyAI, please see our website, and to find out about our benefits, see our careers page.

About You

You are detail oriented and meticulous:

• Details are very important to you. At the same time, you strive to understand the big picture.
• You excel at finding excellent (nothing is perfect) and complete solutions to complex problems.

You are practical:

• You know when to research a problem (which is expected), and when to start working on a solution.
• You naturally strive to understand and internalize requirements, not just technically, but also based on the impact on the end user.

You are self-directed; understanding a problem and finding a solution is something you enjoy.

If this sounds like you, please continue reading and apply!

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive projects to completion which improve and implement features to infrastructure and production application environments
• Build models that drive data analysis in our product
• Meticulously track, report, and articulate performance of our machine learning models as they evolve
• Create algorithms for data cleaning and pre-processing
• Perform ad-hoc analysis and clearly articulate results
• Work in a continually changing startup environment, contributing strongly to continuous improvement

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of data science experience
• Experience building machine learning models (experience with Python and text classification models a plus)
• Excellent communication skills (ability to communicate in technical terms and still be human)
• The desire and ability to learn quickly
• Experience with multiple data science environments and tools
• Bachelor of Science (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Experience

• Masters degree in STEM field
• Experience with our technology stack: Python, Postgres, Docker, git

What we offer

• We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage (and coverage for your dependents too).
• 19 paid holidays. We doubled the national average and then some
• 10 paid vacation days.
• Start-up equity.
• Respect. When you join the team, we support you and have your back. We don’t play politics here.

About Sturdy
Sturdy transforms language data into knowledge that teams use to improve and inform work. We are a venture-backed technology startup founded by seasoned SaaS industry veterans with demonstrated prior success building and scaling technology companies.

Our customer intelligence solution is purpose-built for B2B SaaS and technology enabled subscription businesses. Critical business signals are trapped in language across layers of technology gathering digital dust. Sturdy uses advanced data science and machines to reveal opportunities and risks and delivers just-in-time insights so humans can take the best next steps.

For B2B SaaS companies, consistent growth comes from a complete understanding of your customers. More than 15% of everyday language generated by your users contain a signal that can indicate a risk or an opportunity. Signals come from hundreds of potential sources. The challenge is consistently identifying them and getting them to the right individuals or workflows in time to create an optimal outcome.

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