Senior Data Scientist

Be a part of our success story. At Launch, we offer talented and driven professionals the opportunity to deliver high-impact work in a dynamic, fast-growing environment. We invest in our people through competitive compensation, exceptional benefits, internal growth pathways, and meaningful community involvement. For senior professionals ready to shape the future of AI and Data Science, your next big opportunity starts here.

The Role :

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead the design and development of advanced machine learning and AI solutions that solve complex business challenges. You’ll apply a deep technical foundation in data science, spanning statistics, modeling, software engineering, and domain expertise, while helping set technical direction, mentor team members, and influence decision-making across the organization. You will work closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define use cases, architect scalable solutions, and drive innovation through GenAI, LLMs, NLP, computer vision, and other cutting-edge techniques.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead advanced Data Science initiatives from ideation to deployment, ensuring alignment with business strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Develop, implement, and optimize AI / ML models across a range of domains, including predictive analytics, GenAI, LLMs, time series, deep learning, and NLP.
• Conduct rigorous exploratory data analysis and feature engineering to uncover insights and support robust model development.
• Architect data preprocessing pipelines that ensure clean, high-quality, and well-structured data for training and evaluation.
• Apply experimental design best practices (e.g., A / B testing, cross-validation, randomization) to ensure statistical rigor and reduce model bias / overfitting.
• Own the deployment and monitoring of ML solutions on modern cloud platforms (Databricks, AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, Snowflake, etc.).
• Serve as a technical advisor and thought leader, guiding internal stakeholders on AI capabilities, data strategy, and industry best practices.
• Mentor and support the development of junior and mid-level data scientists through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership, to influence and drive adoption of data-driven solutions.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Benefits & Compensation :

As an employee at Launch, you will grow your skills and experience through a variety of exciting project work (across industries and technologies) with some of the top companies in the world! Our employees receive full benefits - medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and matched 401k. We also have an uncapped, take-what-you-need PTO policy. The anticipated wage range for this role is $140,000-180,000. Education and experience will be highly considered, and we are happy to discuss your wage expectations in more detail throughout our internal interview process.