Senior Data Scientist
Xephyr
Melbourne
3 weeks ago
Senior Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist role at Xephyr, focusing on AI Readiness and AI Agents. Responsibilities include client advisory, project delivery, solution architecture, and mentoring junior data scientists. Requires 5-10 years of data science experience with strong Python, SQL, and GenAI skills.
Hybrid
Full-time
Senior
AI
ML
Salary
Not specified
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
AIMLGenAIRAGagentstool useevaluationsguardrailsclassical MLstatisticsexperimental designcausal inferencePythonSQL
Soft Skills
communicationclient managementstakeholder managementmentoringproblem solvingadaptability
Tools (Must-have)
GitCI/CDSnowflakeBedrockVertexAzure AI FoundryDatabricksLangGraphLlamaIndexpgvectorPineconeWeaviateRagasBraintrustLangSmith
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Responsible AI literacyEU AI ActAustralia’s AI Safety StandardNIST AI RMF
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, including senior and C-suite stakeholders, across AI Readiness and delivery engagements.
- Lead the delivery of AI Readiness Audits, helping clients assess their data, tooling, capability and governance posture.
- Own end-to-end project and stakeholder management on engagements, including scoping, planning, timelines, risk and status reporting.
- Own solution architecture for ML and Generative AI work, including model selection, tool choice and production readiness.
- Design, build and deploy GenAI and ML solutions, including RAG, agentic systems, evaluation pipelines and guardrails alongside the engineering team.
- Ensure solutions are production-ready with appropriate LLMOps and MLOps practices: monitoring, evaluation, cost and latency trade-offs.
- Translate ambiguous client problems into scoped opportunities and contribute to estimates, proposals and statements of work.
- Support the sales motion through discovery sessions, workshops and technical pitches.
- Mentor mid and junior data scientists through code reviews, pairing, design reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Feed insights, patterns and reusable components from client work back into Xephyr’s GenAI product roadmap.
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