Hybrid Lead Data Scientist

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About the role

  • Lead Data Scientist building core AI systems for OpenExpert.AI, an AI operations platform in the energy sector. Collaborating across teams to design, deploy, and scale AI systems in high-stakes environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build the Core AI System (0 → 1)
  • Design and develop AI/ML systems for diagnostics, anomaly detection, and decision support
  • Work with time-series, sensor data, text, and operational data in real-world environments
  • Build and deploy models into production, not just prototypes
  • Turn Data into Intelligence
  • Transform telemetry, manuals, work orders, and engineering documents into actionable insights
  • Develop systems for root-cause analysis, predictive maintenance, and knowledge capture
  • Contribute to multimodal AI systems that combine structured and unstructured data
  • Work Across Product & Engineering
  • Partner closely with product and engineering to ship quickly and iterate
  • Help define what to build, not just how to build it
  • Support early pilots tied to real customer outcomes (diagnostics, uptime, efficiency)
  • Lay the Foundation for Scale
  • Establish best practices for model development, evaluation, and deployment
  • Contribute to explainability, reliability, and system performance
  • Help shape the future data science function and roadmap

Requirements

  • Experience working in a startup or early-stage environment
  • Have built and shipped ML/AI systems from scratch
  • Comfortable being hands-on and scrappy
  • Strong bias for execution, speed, and ownership
  • Strong experience in machine learning, data science, or applied AI
  • Experience with time-series data, anomaly detection, or predictive systems
  • Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, or multimodal data is a plus
  • Solid engineering skills (Python, production systems, APIs, cloud environments)
  • Experience deploying models into production environments
  • Comfortable working with messy, real-world data
  • Ability to balance model performance with practical constraints
  • Interested in growing into a leadership role (Head / Chief Data Scientist)
  • Able to mentor others and help build a team over time
  • Interested in shaping both technical direction and team development
  • Experience in energy, industrial systems, or manufacturing is a bonus (not required)
  • Familiarity with SCADA/OT systems, IoT, or operational data environments is a bonus (not required)

Benefits

  • Early team member with high ownership and impact
  • Clear path to Head / Chief Data Scientist as the company grows
  • Equity in a venture-backed company
  • Backing from C10 Labs (capital, talent, and support)
  • Opportunity to build AI systems in real-world, high-stakes environments

Job title

Lead Data Scientist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

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