Applied Data Scientist

Hophr
San Francisco, US
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-level data scientists with NLP production experience who thrive in office-centric work settings.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a track record of deploying NLP models in enterprise environments
    — “Demonstrated track record of shipping models into production
  • Data scientists comfortable with embedding models and semantic similarity at scale
    — “Experience with embedding models and semantic similarity at enterprise scale
  • Professionals authorized to work in the US without sponsorship needs
    — “Must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer sponsorship

Things to consider

  • Minimum 4 days per week in-office requirement in San Francisco
    — “minimum 4 days per week in-office
  • No visa sponsorship available for international candidates
    — “No visa sponsorship

How to stand out

  • Showcase specific examples of moving models from experimentation to production
    — “Partner with engineering to move models from experimentation to production
  • Highlight experience with drift detection in deployed models
    — “own monitoring and drift detection
  • Demonstrate applied NLP techniques on real-world data pipelines
    — “Apply NLP techniques to real-world data pipelines
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

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What success looks like

  • accurate ML models
  • real-world data pipelines
  • production-ready models
Typical background
data scientistapplied data science

Skills & requirements

Required

Machine LearningNLPModel DeploymentPythonSQLEmbeddingsSemantic Similarity

Preferred

Enterprise-scale ExperienceAgricultural Data Analysis

Stack & domain

PythonPandasscikit-learnPyTorchTensorFlowNLPEmbeddingsNerText ClassificationProblem-solvingCommunicationAIMachine LearningData Science

About the role

Original posting from Hophr via Lever

Draup is a Series A-funded agentic AI company building the intelligence layer for how global enterprises make workforce and go-to-market decisions. We work with 250+ enterprise clients — including 5 of the Fortune 10 — processing 1B+ job descriptions, 850M+ professional profiles, and signals from 100+ labor databases.

We are now building our Silicon Valley engineering team — a small, senior group focused on next-generation AI research and product.

Location: San Francisco, SoMa — minimum 4 days per week in-office.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain ML models for classification, extraction, trend detection, and predictive scoring on large structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Design experiments and benchmarks to measure model accuracy, reduce bias, and validate outputs at scale.
  • Apply NLP techniques — embeddings, NER, text classification — to real-world data pipelines.
  • Partner with engineering to move models from experimentation to production; own monitoring and drift detection.
  • Build evaluation frameworks for AI-generated outputs across multiple product use cases.

What we require

  • BS/MS in Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a quantitative field.
  • 3–5 years of applied data science; minimum 2 years working with NLP or large-scale text data in production.
  • Strong Python (pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch or TensorFlow); proficient in SQL.
  • Demonstrated track record of shipping models into production, not just producing analysis.
  • Experience with embedding models and semantic similarity at enterprise scale.
  • No visa sponsorship. Must be authorized to work in the US without current or future employer sponsorship.

Source: Hophr careers (Lever)

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