Decagon
Agent Data Scientist
$165K–$215K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in data science, analytics, or another quantitative role.
About the job
Defines, delivers, and improves customer-specific performance metrics for AI agent deployments, while building tools and frameworks to scale measurement across Decagon.
What you'll do
- Work with customers to define and operationalize trusted performance metrics, and deliver transparent reporting.
- Diagnose performance, design experiments, and drive improvements to key account metrics.
- Build measurement tools and frameworks, define success for new initiatives, and provide feedback to Product, Engineering, and Research.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in data science, analytics, or another quantitative role, driving analyses end to end and using them to influence decisions.
- Fluency in SQL and Python, and comfort with large volumes of messy, unstructured conversational data.
- Ability to align stakeholders on a shared definition of success.
- Strong independence and judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving situations.
Nice to have
- History of building internal tools that gained meaningful adoption.
- Experience with production AI products, including evaluating LLM or agent behavior and building evaluations.
Pay
$165K-$215K (USD, base salary); equity amount not stated
Tools
SQL, Python, LLM
AI focus
Measures and improves AI agent performance, including defining and building evaluations for LLM or agent behavior.
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