Senior Data Science Engineer, Data Science & Analytics (DSA)

Simbe Robotics • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join the Data Science & Analytics team, owning production-grade data pipelines from ideation through delivery. This is an engineering-forward DS role — you'll partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ship reliable, user-facing features that surface insights from our retail data at scale.
You are someone who thrives at the intersection of data science and software engineering: you write production code, own the reliability of the systems you build, and drive cross-functional projects to completion without waiting to be unblocked.
Leveling (Senior or Staff) and compensation will be determined through the interview process based on your background and technical depth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data science or a closely related role, with demonstrable delivery of production features (not just research or prototyping)
• Strong Python skills; comfortable writing production-quality, version-controlled code
• Solid SQL and experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms (GCP/BigQuery preferred)
• Experience with dbt for data transformation — writing models, tests, and documentation as part of a production analytics engineering workflow
• Experience owning the full lifecycle of a data science feature: scoping, building, shipping, and maintaining
• Proven ability to work across functions — you've partnered with Engineering, Product, or Commercial teams and know how to communicate tradeoffs and drive alignment
• Retail industry experience strongly preferred (store operations, inventory, merchandising, supply chain, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (LLM APIs, coding assistants, prompt engineering) to accelerate analytical work

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with MLOps practices, pipeline orchestration (Airflow or similar), model monitoring, CI/CD for data science workflows
• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, or similar) for communicating findings to non-technical stakeholders
• Background in experimentation design (A/B testing, causal inference)

Responsibilities

• Own production pipelines end-to-end — design, build, and maintain robust data science pipelines that run reliably in production, including monitoring, alerting, and iterative improvement
• Scope and deliver features — take ambiguous problems, define clear analytical approaches, and ship client-facing solutions in collaboration with Engineering and Product Management
• Drive cross-functional delivery — proactively identify blockers, align stakeholders across teams, and move projects forward with minimal oversight
• Apply AI tooling to accelerate work — leverage LLMs, agents, and other AI-assisted workflows to increase the speed and quality of analysis and development
• Translate retail data into decisions — connect store-level signals (inventory, on-shelf availability, task execution, etc.) to meaningful business outcomes for both internal teams and retail clients
• Raise analytical standards — establish best practices for reproducibility, documentation, and code quality across the team's DS work
• Build conversational data experiences — design and prototype AI agent or chatbot interfaces that allow internal or external users to query and explore retail data through natural language (nice to have)

Benefits

• Ownership that matters — you'll have real scope over systems and features that run in production and directly affect how our retail partners operate
• Cutting-edge stack — GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, and an evolving AI toolchain with a strong appetite for experimentation
• High-signal environment — focused team where your work is visible and your technical judgment is trusted
• Retail at scale — Simbe's data spans thousands of stores and billions of shelf observations, a genuinely rich and challenging domain

What This Job Offers

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