Data Scientist

PLACE is a profitable, hypergrowth startup at the intersection of real estate, technology, and business services. As a Data Scientist, you will own data science and machine learning work end-to-end, collaborating closely with your team to deploy models and innovate solutions in a rapidly scaling environment.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze data to support or disprove a thesis, letting evidence guide conclusions over confirmation bias
• Select and implement the right tools for each problem, from gradient boosting models to transformer-based approaches
• Build, train, test, and validate models — from algorithm selection through hyperparameter tuning and rigorous evaluation
• Engineer models into production so they run reliably on real infrastructure, serving real customers
• Document models, testing protocols, and decision rationale for the team
• Monitor and improve models in production, knowing when to retrain, rebuild, or rethink as data and performance drift
• Explore agentic and reasoning systems, helping the team separate what's genuinely useful from hype in semi-autonomous, planning AI
• Other duties as assigned or apparent