Data Scientist

FutureFit AI • Toronto, ON

1d • $100,000 - $140,000 • Remote

About The Position

At FutureFit AI, our core mission is to help more people get to better jobs faster and cheaper, with a specific focus on those facing barriers to opportunity. Our work helps resolve the growing issue of economic inequality, ensuring that no one is left behind in the future of work. Our AI-powered platform brings efficiency and insight to workforce development, replacing outdated systems and unlocking human potential at scale. We're seeking a Data Scientist to join our team. You will build the models at the heart of our product: the systems that connect people to the right jobs, skills, and pathways. This is hands-on, applied data science on real workforce problems, working with skills and occupation taxonomies, labor market data, and the matching and recommendation systems that turn that data into better outcomes for job seekers. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, and our Director of Data & AI to take models from idea to production.

Requirements

• Strong applied data science experience (roughly 4+ years), with a track record of shipping models that made it into a real product
• Explicit jobs-and-skills or workforce data experience, OR experience with closely related data where there is a clear pathway to apply it to workforce problems (this is a firm criterion for the role)
• Fluency in Python and SQL, and solid grounding in machine learning, NLP, and recommendation/matching techniques
• Comfort working with large, imperfect datasets and making sound judgment calls about them
• Clear communication: you can explain a model and its tradeoffs to a non-technical audience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with recommender systems, ranking, or search at scale
• Familiarity with skills/occupation frameworks (e.g. ONET, ESCO) or HR/labor market data
• Experience pairing classical ML with LLMs, including where to use each and how to add guardrails
• Publications, presentations, blog posts, or other public artifacts showcasing your expertise and depth of knowledge in data science

Responsibilities

• Build, evaluate, and ship models for matching, recommendation, and ranking that directly shape the job seeker experience.
• Work with skills, occupation, and career taxonomies and labor market data, improving how we represent and reason about the world of work.
• Collaborate with Engineering to move models into production reliably, and monitor and improve them once they are live.
• Translate messy, real-world data into clear findings and recommendations that the team and our customers can act on.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is USD $100,000 to $140,000 for candidates based in New York and CAD $110,000 to $155,000 for candidates based in Toronto, benchmarked to the middle of the market for comparable venture-backed companies. This range reflects the varying levels of expertise and responsibilities that will be determined through the interview process, based on applied experience and other criteria established by the hiring committee. Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and adjusted to reflect market conditions and cost of living in each location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed