Actifai · 5 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist
Washington, DC
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expActifai is an artificial intelligence company that helps clients in the cable and telecom industry optimize their decision-making processes. The Senior Data Scientist will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, and improving models and algorithms, working closely with engineering and product teams to drive high-impact decisions.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSoftwareMachine LearningSales AutomationTelecommunications
Responsibilities
Translate business asks into clearly defined modeling tasks and evaluation frameworks
Perform exploratory analysis to assess data quality, label stability, and measurement feasibility before modeling
Define success metrics, guardrails, and counterfactual approaches
Identify sources of bias or limitations introduced by product and operational flows, agent behavior, or data collection
Create and maintain training datasets from multiple production data sources
Engineer and validate features with attention to temporal correctness and leakage
Train and evaluate supervised learning models for customer decision problems
Implement and tune decision logic, including contextual bandit / reinforcement learning approaches layered on predictions
Evaluate model and policy performance through offline analysis and simulation
Design and analyze A/B tests or staged rollouts
Analyze experimental outcomes and translate results into product decisions
Diagnose unexpected results, sample issues, or measurement artifacts
Specify model inputs, outputs, and logging requirements needed for monitoring and evaluation
Work with engineers to integrate models into live workflows
Build dashboards to monitor model and decision performance
Investigate anomalies and recommend system improvements
Communicate findings and tradeoffs to product, engineering, and client stakeholders
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in applied data science or machine learning
Strong Python and SQL skills. Comfortable working with large, messy real-world datasets
Experience developing and evaluating supervised ML models
Practical experience with experimentation and statistical reasoning
Familiarity with reinforcement learning or decisioning frameworks
Demonstrated ability to independently frame problems and drive analysis from ambiguity to impact
Strong communication skills across technical and business audiences
Degree in a STEM discipline preferred (or equivalent practical experience)
Preferred
Experience in telecom, subscription, pricing, churn, or retention analytics
Exposure to contextual bandits, RL, or policy optimization
Experience working in multi-client or product-driven analytics settings
Familiarity with AI agents
Benefits
Actifai equity grants.
Employer-covered health, vision, and dental insurance (with an optional FSA).
401k matching.
Employees receive 20 days of PTO allowance per year, with 5 rolling days and 10 holidays.
Employees can work either remotely or from our office in downtown Washington, D.C.
Company
Actifai
Actifai, an AI-powered customer engagement platform, allows cable and telecom providers to match individual customers with optimized offers.
11-50 employees
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