Qualtrics

Staff Data Scientist AI/ML

Seattle, Washington, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$207k-$271kDetected 8 days ago

PythonScalaAWSTerraformRESTMachine LearningSparkData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearchCollaborationMentoring

About the role

Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light.
You won't have to look to find growth opportunities-ready or not, they'll find you.
Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that's work worth doing.

Responsibilities

As our lead data scientist, you will bridge this "Meaning Gap" by turning raw, chaotic event logs into an intelligent, concept-linked graph-the Semantic Brain.
You will move past basic chat interfaces to architect an Identity-Anchored World Model that allows LLMs to understand complex enterprise ideas like "High-Value Churn Risk" and drive autonomous, agentic decisions.
Refine your voice as an industry thought leader with active support to publish papers, write technical books, or speak at major global AI conferences.
No throwing code over the wall-we build together.

Requirements

A Proven Tracker Record in AI/ML: Broad capability delivering high-impact AI systems at scale (typically requires around 10+ years of professional data science experience).
Deep Graph Expertise: Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and querying graph databases, with specific, deep technical proficiency in AWS Neptune and SPARQL.
Production-Level Data Pipelines: Extensive experience with Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) for large-scale distributed data processing and ETL optimization on massive datasets.

Nice to have

Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader.
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Compensation

Washington State Base Annual Pay Transparency Range
$206,500 - $271,000 USD

Benefits

Takes ownership of the technical vision, setting a high bar for architectural excellence while mentoring and elevating the engineering team around you.
Receive an annual stipend for technical books, research papers, and subscriptions to keep your skills at the absolute cutting edge.
Comprehensive global health, dental, and vision coverage, alongside flexible time-off policies to ensure you stay energized.
Family & Medical Leave Act,
A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer.
Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, mental health benefits, and an experience bonus.
For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.
From retail to government to healthcare, we're on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business.
For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience.

Company info

Enjoys working directly with pilot partners and customers, listening to their unique business pain points, and translating them into technical requirements and concrete industry ontologies.
Map fragmented data to human-readable terms by leading the discovery and mapping of raw event logs to Vertical Ontologies (Industry Knowledge Packs).
Accelerate AI accuracy by 60% by designing and deploying a Concept Graph that anchors the substrate, utilizing verified profile IDs instead of session data for memory.
Train autonomous agents efficiently by building the logic for Reward Signal Extraction and Context-Aware actioning to infer KPIs directly from interaction logs, avoiding traditional delayed-reward bottlenecks.
Reduce agentic action risk by 40% by utilizing Off-Policy Evaluation (OPE) and action-conditional world models to simulate high-value scenarios and ground recommendations.
Avoid the "Services Trap" and enable scale by engineering automated systems that allow 80% of the team's context mapping to be executed seamlessly without manual intervention.
We aren't building wrappers or hype.
We are focused on solving the deepest technical challenges in the enterprise AI space with academic rigor.
Our Team's Favorite Perks and Benefits
At Qualtrics, we create software the world's best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love.
But we are more than a platform-we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally.
Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention-but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you'll be part of a nimble group that's empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them.
At Semantic Substrate Incubation, we are drowning in data but starving for meaning.

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