Forward Deployed Data Scientist

Growth Signals • Boston, MA

10d • Remote

About The Position

As a Forward Deployed Data Scientist (FDDS) at Growth Signals, you'll work directly with enterprise customers to help them get real value from our GenAI platform. You'll be their primary technical partner, combining data science expertise with product knowledge and customer success to solve their toughest challenges.

Requirements

• Master's degree with 3+ years of experience (including 1+ year client-facing) or Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of experience in data science, ML engineering, or technical consulting.
• Strong data engineering skills (ETL, pipelines, cloud data warehousing) combined with data science fundamentals (modeling, statistics)
• Hands-on experience with LLMs—building solutions, prompt engineering, and working with GenAI frameworks
• Proficiency in Python and NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
• Experience with statistical modeling, machine learning, and model evaluation
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and production deployment practices
• Experience working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable in an early-stage startup environment—you're self-directed and thrive with ambiguity
• Willing to travel up to 50% for on-site customer work
• Able to communicate technical concepts clearly to business audiences

Nice To Haves

• SaaS experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers: Partner with executives and operational teams to understand their business challenges and identify where our GenAI platform can have the biggest impact
• Act as the technical expert on our platform, translating business needs into agentic workflows and custom solutions
• Build and implement solutions: Integrate customer data sources and APIs into our platform's research agents and AI workspace
• Design and deploy custom LLM workflows and agents for analyzing complex customer data
• Develop and automate data science workflows tailored to each customer's needs
• Own the full implementation—from initial discovery through deployment and adoption

Benefits

• Competitive salary + early-stage equity
• Flexible remote-first culture
• Opportunity to work directly with founders and shape product and customer strategy
• Build relationships with innovative customers solving hard problems with AI

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level