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Data Scientist (Senior)

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Toronto, ON
Senior level
Toronto, ON
Senior level
As a Senior Data Scientist at GPTZero, you'll analyze user behavior, build data-driven solutions, and collaborate across teams to enhance decision-making and product development.
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About GPTZero

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.


Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, MILA, and Vector.

What we're looking for

At GPTZero, we make sure that humanity can continue to make good decisions in the world where AI-generation information is everywhere.

In this role, you'll blend product analytics, business analytics, and data science to build a data-driven foundation that powers decision-making and innovation. You’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams to influence strategy, optimize user experiences, and develop scalable solutions for millions of users worldwide.

What you'll contribute

  • Build our  understanding of user behaviour and needs with product analytics using Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, and PySpark

  • Write clean, efficient Python and SQL to extract insights, identify patterns, and evaluate the performance of our machine learning models

  • Build robust, scalable pipelines to ingest, preprocess, and analyze large-scale datasets using tools like Databricks and amplitude.

  • Collaborate with both machine learning engineers and product teams to validate datasets, interpret model outputs, and recommend improvements.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with Pandas, Numpy, and Scipy for data manipulation, visualization and statistical analysis of complex datasets.

  • Experience with large-scale data pipelines and feature engineering (such as PySpark, BigQuery, AWS EMR, or Hive).

  • Strong storytelling ability to communicate complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Self-starter (pitch, plan, and implement as a project owner in a fast-paced team)

  • Highly motivated to make positive societal impact

  • Ability to wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows

  • Ability to work in Canada

  • Bonus:

    • strong open-source portfolio

    • experience with PyTorch for machine learning

    • experience with databricks, and amplitude for product analytics

    • experience working in an early-stage startup environment 

Who you'll be joining

Our Team

You will be working directly with

  • Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML

  • George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research.

  • Olivia (our head of design) on translating your research into outputs for millions of users. 

  • Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.

Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.

Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity

Our Angels and Advisors 

  • Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO)

  • Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive)

  • Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman)

  • Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, co-author of OpenAI’s original GPT paper) 

  • Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI)

  • Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores)

  • Brad Smith (President of Microsoft)

  • Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital)

  • Ali Partovi (co-founder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb)

  • Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend)

  • Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI)

  • Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation)

Our Perks

  • 🏥 Health, dental, and mental health benefits

  • 💻 Hybrid work in Toronto and NYC offices

  • 🚀 Competitive salary

  • 🍰 Equity (seed round was in March 2023, today, our metrics exceed many series A companies)

  • 🏝 Flexible PTO

  • 🎉 Regular company retreats

  • 💡Mentorship opportunities with our world-class advisors and investors

  • 🙌 Wellness and learning stipend

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Top Skills

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BigQuery
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Hive
Numpy
Pandas
Pyspark
Python
Scipy
SQL

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