[8BE] Data Scientist (AI + ML)

Software Mind Americas

2d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Data Scientist with deep expertise in probabilistic AI and statistical machine learning to support a client's e-commerce platform, built on a distributed microservices architecture. The platform roadmap includes a set of intelligence capabilities that require rigorous statistical modeling rather than standard supervised ML. This role is responsible for designing, validating, and productionizing probabilistic models, and for working closely with backend engineering to translate those models into service-oriented production architecture within the platform's existing microservices ecosystem.

Requirements

+90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills
Strong, demonstrable background in Bayesian statistics/Bayesian inference, Markov chains, Hidden Markov Models, MCMC methods (including Metropolis-Hastings sampling), mixture models (ideally Gaussian Mixture Models), and Expectation-Maximization.
Proven experience building and deploying statistical/ML models into production systems, not just research notebooks or offline analysis.
Proficiency in Python (or R) with standard probabilistic/statistical libraries (e.g., PyMC, Stan, scikit-learn, NumPy/SciPy) for model development and validation.
Ability to translate statistical/mathematical models into service-oriented production architecture — defining APIs and data contracts and working directly with backend engineers to integrate them.
Solid understanding of version control, testing practices, and CI/CD, sufficient to collaborate effectively with an engineering team on production delivery.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain model behavior, assumptions, and uncertainty to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience in e-commerce or retail domains, particularly pricing optimization, customer segmentation, or demand forecasting.
Experience integrating ML models with microservices architectures (REST/GraphQL) and event-driven systems (e.g., message queues/pub-sub), and deploying to cloud infrastructure.
Familiarity with common backend service ecosystems (e.g., .NET, Java, or Node.js) — even if modeling itself is done in Python — for a smoother handoff to the production engineering team.
Experience with MLOps tooling such as model registries, monitoring, and feature stores.
Background in pricing science, recommendation systems, or marketing analytics.

Responsibilities

Design and implement Bayesian statistical models — priors, likelihoods, and posterior inference — to support decisioning under uncertainty across pricing, segmentation, and demand-related use cases.
Build Markov chain and Hidden Markov Model formulations for sequential and behavioral patterns (e.g., customer lifecycle stages, state transitions), producing outputs that downstream services can consume.
Apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, including Metropolis-Hastings sampling, to estimate posterior distributions for models without closed-form solutions, and validate convergence and sampling quality.
Develop mixture models — Gaussian Mixture Models in particular — to support segmentation use cases, identifying latent customer or product groupings from transactional and behavioral data.
Implement Expectation-Maximization for latent-variable estimation underlying mixture models and related unsupervised learning tasks.
Work with backend engineering to translate statistical models into production service architecture — defining APIs, data contracts, and integration points within the platform's existing microservices and event-driven pipelines.
Define the approach for model training, validation, versioning, monitoring/drift detection, and retraining cadence once models are in production.
Partner with delivery and engineering leads to size, sequence, and estimate probabilistic/statistical modeling initiatives on the product roadmap.
Document modeling assumptions, methodology, and validation results, and provide clear hand-off guidance so models remain maintainable by the engineering team after the engagement.