Tavern Research
Data Scientist II
Chicago, IL · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
PythonCode ReviewMachine LearningData ScienceAgentic AIMLOpsResearchCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Dynamic systems involving human behavior, especially when interactions aren't directly observable, are even harder.
- As a Data Scientist II, you'll take on substantive projects end-to-end, defining the problem, shaping the data, and designing models that bring clarity to messy, high-impact questions.
- Some days you'll be designing experiments; other days you'll be debugging noisy datasets or parsing engagement metrics to figure out what's actually working and why.
Responsibilities
- You'll collaborate closely with a tight-knit, interdisciplinary team, testing ideas fast, shipping iteratively, and pushing toward real-world impact.
- While your primary focus will be hands-on modeling, you'll also support and mentor junior modelers, helping to expand Tavern's technical depth and build a sustainable senior-junior structure.
- Independently lead the design and analysis of experiments using methods like randomized trials, difference-in-differences, and causal inference.
- Engineer features and build scalable pipelines from messy, real-world datasets.
- Drive rigorous model evaluation, diagnostics, and iteration to ensure reliability.
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to translate open-ended questions into solvable modeling approaches.
- Provide peer support and mentorship to junior modelers, helping to grow team capacity.
- Depth in advanced techniques such as causal inference, topic modeling, network analysis, embeddings, optimization, or agentic systems, with strong grounding in experiment design and statistical evaluation.
Requirements
- You know when to chase the perfect solution and when "good enough" will move the mission forward faster.
- you don't need a degree to work here.
Benefits
- Benefits Premium health insurance Unlimited PTO Office closed for all federal holidays 401k match Equity Tavern Research is an
- Build, maintain, and evaluate advanced statistical and machine learning models that generate political and behavioral insights.
Company info
- You just need to be good at the things we're asking from you.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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