Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast is revolutionizing the restaurant industry by combining technology with customer success. The Data Scientist II will embed data science capabilities into the Toast platform by developing statistical and machine learning models in collaboration with engineers and product managers.
Responsibilities
- Apply a diverse set of expertise including data mining, statistical analysis and machine learning to deliver impactful, objective, and actionable data insights that enable informed business and product decisions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, and product, to identify business opportunities and develop data-driven solutions that drive growth and engagement
- Partner with line of business teams and collaborate with product managers, engineers and data scientists to foster data-driven decisions that yield significant impacts
- Able to effectively communicate analysis, insights and recommendations to high-level business partners in verbal, visual and written formats
- Thrive in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment
Skills
- Bachelors in computer science, engineering, math, statistics, economics, or other quantitative discipline; Masters preferred
- 2+ years of data science experience in an industry environment
- Have solid statistical and machine learning foundations. Familiar with machine learning concepts (e.g. regression/classification, clustering, offline/online model evaluation)
- Experience with advanced machine learning techniques, including supervised and unsupervised learning, graph algorithms, deep learning (e.g., NLP), recommendation systems, and generative AI
- Experience with Python and SQL, and ML frameworks (e.g. scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch)
- Experience with cloud solutions, preferably with AWS tooling (e.g. SageMaker, DynamoDB, Athena, Glue, etc.)
- Experience with model workflow orchestration tool (e.g. Airflow)
- Experience collaborating with engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate sophisticated quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
- Experience working on LLM applications, including prompting, RAG, and evaluation
- Experience in software engineering best practices and tools including object-oriented programming, test-driven development, CI/CD, git, shell scripting, task orchestration
- Experience shipping machine learning systems in production environments
- Experience in A/B testing and other experimentation methodologies for effective product launch measurement
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry
- Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
- Equity
- Benefits
- Hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs
- Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process
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