Databricks · 2 days ago
Staff Data Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $260K/yr
7+ years expDatabricks is a leading data and AI company that empowers organizations to solve complex problems through its Data Intelligence Platform. As a Staff Data Scientist, you will drive the data-driven culture at Databricks, collaborating with various teams to tackle product and business challenges while mentoring junior data scientists.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data StorageInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Shape the direction of some of our key data science areas - segmentation, recommendation systems, forecasting, product analytics, churn prediction and insights
Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, Sales and Customer Success to understand product usage patterns and trends and make data-driven decisions, recommendations and forecasts
Manage stakeholders for their focus area - gather changing requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress and results to a non-technical audience
Mentor and guide junior data scientists on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review
Represent the data science discipline throughout the organization, having a powerful voice to make us more data-driven
Build self-serving internal data products to make data simple within the company
Represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences & events
Qualification
Required
7+ years of data science, machine learning, advanced analytics experience in high velocity, high-growth companies
Extensive experience in applying Data Science / ML for the end-to-end development and deployment of data-driven products for solving business problems
Familiarity with product data science - understanding and tracking customer and user behavior using lenses like adoption, churn, cohorts, segmentation and funnel analysis
Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions. We work most closely with Product, Sales and Engineering at the moment, but also work with the Marketing and Finance organizations
Strong coding skills in general purpose languages like Scala or Python, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, code reviews and deployment
Proficient in data analysis and visualization using tools like R and Python
Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark, and proficiency in SQL
MS or Ph.D. in quantitative fields (e.g., Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics, Economics, Operational Research or Engineering)
Benefits
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Equity
Comprehensive benefits and perks
Company
Databricks
Databricks is a data and AI platform that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a lakehouse architecture.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$25.81BKey Investors
Counterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-16Series Unknown· $4B
2025-09-08Series Unknown· $1B
2025-01-13Debt Financing· $5.25B
Leadership Team
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-founder
David Conte
Chief Financial Officer
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