# Data Scientist - Company: [Aisquared]() - Location: Washington, DC - Team: Engineering - Posted: September 24, 2025 ## Job description **Data Scientist** **Washington, DC (Hybrid)** **About the Role:** We are looking for a highly motivated Data Scientist with a strong background in applied machine learning and AI to join our growing team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the development of core AI/ML solutions that power our platform. You will collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, applying state-of-the-art techniques to solve complex challenges, advance our use of large language models (LLMs), and ensure scalable, production-ready solutions. **Key Responsibilities:** * Leverage 5+ years of experience in data science to design, implement, and optimize machine learning models and pipelines. * Develop, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) for a variety of applications, ensuring accuracy, performance, and robustness. * Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate AI/ML solutions into our platform in a scalable and maintainable way. * Conduct applied research, staying current on advances in LLMs, generative AI, and data science methodologies, and translate them into practical solutions. * Build end-to-end workflows, from data exploration and feature engineering to training, validation, deployment, and monitoring in production. * Apply modern containerization and orchestration techniques (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to support reproducible experimentation and deployment. * Work with cloud platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure) to manage data pipelines, large-scale training jobs, and distributed systems. * Collaborate across teams to ensure our AI capabilities align with platform goals and business needs. **Qualifications:** * 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer, with proven success in deploying models to production. * Hands-on experience with large language models (LLMs); fine-tuning experience strongly preferred. * Strong background in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. * Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). * Experience with cloud platforms and ML ecosystems (Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure). * Familiarity with MLOps best practices, including model deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for ML. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate research into production-ready solutions. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and leadership teams. * A proactive, self-starter mindset with a passion for applied research and innovation. ## Apply [Apply on Aisquared]() Canonical job page: