Job Description

Posted on:

October 27, 2024

We’re looking for a product- and end-user-focused Data Scientist to bring their unique data perspective to a cross-functional product development team here at Jellyfish. You’ll use our platform’s unique set of engineering work signals with our emerging engineer sentiment dataset to help create innovative new products and features that produce rich insights, impacting how our customers understand and guide their own development teams and the software they build. Most importantly, you will be part of a highly talented team working in a fun, challenging, and collaborative environment, building a fast-growing business and company led by experienced entrepreneurs and backed by top-tier investment partners.

Let’s Talk About Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to design and build compelling, innovative new experiences that drive real change for our customers.
  • Apply techniques from various fields including statistics, signal processing, natural language processing, machine learning, and generative AI to develop new algorithms and power advanced features within Jellyfish.
  • Plan, implement, and deploy improvements to the core algorithms and inference engines that power the Jellyfish platform.
  • Enhance our processes for validating, testing, and deploying data science algorithms and models.
  • Measure the impact of the experiences the team is building.

Let’s Talk About What You Need To Excel:

  • Product mindset, focused on the value users and customers derive from the experiences being developed.
  • Iterative and incremental approach to problem-solving.
  • Effective communication with technical and non-technical colleagues; ability to thrive in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Adept at handling ambiguity and understanding stakeholder requirements.
  • Proven experience in data science with strong Python and SQL skills.
  • Ability to independently deconstruct complex problems into solvable frameworks.
  • Interest in prototyping, building, testing, and deploying advanced algorithms and technology.
  • Balance project goals, business needs, and technical solutions efficiently.
  • Passionate about working with real-world data and eager to test ideas with real customers.
  • Desire to learn and share knowledge with others.

Bonus Points If You Have Experience With:

  • Adapting data science algorithms for production applications.
  • Building pipelines for data science tasks like data collection, model training, or parameter optimization.
  • Familiarity with our engineering technology stack: Python 3, Django, Postgres, Docker, AWS.

A list of job experiences and qualification requirements is great, but humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach are most important to us. We love to have fun and win in the process. We only hire people who have a passion for building great companies in an environment where a sense of humor is a must. Occasional travel may be required. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US as we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Let’s talk about us! Jellyfish was started in 2017 as a team of three with one big idea: engineering is the core of modern business, so let’s create and manage it that way! With the help of our customers, we have built the first Engineering Management Platform, providing visibility into engineering organizations, their work, and how they operate. We enable leaders to align engineering decisions with business initiatives and deliver the right software efficiently and on time.

We believe that it takes a diverse team to build the best company we can. Jellyfish welcomes people from all backgrounds and especially encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in the software industry.

Secret insights

Jellyfish is scaling fast with 238 employees! Engineering up 25%, indicating strong tech focus. HR growth shows they care about talent. Perfect for AI pros wanting to thrive in a supportive, high-growth environment.