Senior Data Scientist, AI Search / AEO Research
About The Position
Shopping is moving from search boxes to answer engines. Shoppers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews what to buy — and brands win or lose on whether AI represents their products accurately. This is a wide-open field with no established playbook, and fabric is defining it. You'll own the research that helps define our AI Shopping roadmap. That means helping shape how we measure a brand's AI Shopping capability and how we optimize for the best outcomes. Your work becomes the research behind fabric's roadmap and the credibility behind our thought leadership. This is a hybrid role by design — part researcher, part PM, part evangelist, part customer-facing. You'll design the studies, build the models, publish the findings, and sit with customers to show them what the data means for their business.
Requirements
- A demonstrated point of view on AI search (AEO/GEO).
- Rigorous quantitative foundation.
- Strong data science, statistical, and causal-inference / econometric skills.
- Fluency in Python, SQL, or similar.
- Ability to frame a question, design the analysis, build the model, and defend the methodology.
- Original research experience (e.g., run benchmarks, market studies, or performance studies).
- An SEO / search discovery background.
- Understanding of discovery from the inside and rigorous, data-driven measurement of it.
- Experimentation chops (designed and run A/B tests or similar).
- Ability to tell stories with data, turning raw numbers into a clear narrative and defensible point of view.
- Ability to explain complex findings to non-technical audiences.
- Comfort with ambiguity; ability to help build a measurement function from scratch.
- Deep curiosity about commerce (genuine interest in e-commerce, marketing, and analytics).
Nice To Haves
- External recognition for your research (press, whitepapers, published benchmarks, or conference talks).
- Customer-facing or consulting experience.
- Familiarity with the AEO/GEO tooling landscape and how brands currently try to measure AI visibility.
- Experience at an e-commerce, martech, or search company or working closely with retail brands and their product data.
- An advanced degree or academic research background in economics, digital markets, computational social science, or a related quantitative field.
Responsibilities
- Own the research that helps define our AI Shopping roadmap.
- Help shape how we measure a brand's AI Shopping capability.
- Optimize for the best outcomes.
- Design studies, build models, and publish findings.
- Sit with customers to show them what the data means for their business.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
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