Drimva

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Data Scientist, Marketplace Incentives

$180K–$280K

San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 30, 2026

About the job

Optimize dataset quality by designing marketplace incentives, testing collection strategies, measuring data value, and shipping effective changes into the collection product.

What you'll do

  • Design marketplace mechanics—including task mix, targeting, bonuses, payouts, and eligibility—to increase high-value data collection.
  • Run experiments on incentives and measure their impact on the dataset objective.
  • Work with software to ship incentive and payout changes, and report results in actionable terms for operations.

What they ask for

  • Ability to optimize against an objective function.
  • Comfort designing and interpreting experiments, including assignment, holdouts, power, and leakage.
  • Comfort working with messy field or collection data.
  • Enjoyment of iterative, measured changes.

Nice to have

  • Experience with marketplaces, incentives, pricing, or growth experimentation.
  • Experience with real-money payout or pay systems, or shipping experiment results into a product.

Pay

$180K – $280K USD base salary

AI focus

The role supports Physical AI by optimizing incentives and collection behavior to produce higher-value training datasets.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)