Ellipsis Health
Senior Data Scientist
$180K–$230K
San Francisco - Hybrid · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in data science, machine learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Develops evaluation systems, datasets, metrics, and monitoring pipelines to improve the quality of Ellipsis Health’s conversational AI, LLM, and speech products.
What you'll do
- Own AI evaluation projects from problem definition through implementation, and communicate findings.
- Build and improve closed-loop LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation infrastructure, including datasets, benchmarks, calibration, error analysis, and production feedback.
- Develop evaluation frameworks, datasets, pipelines, and dashboards; collaborate with engineering and product teams and mentor junior data scientists.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of industry experience in data science, machine learning, or a related quantitative field.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Proficiency in Python; experience with large-scale datasets and data pipelines.
- Strong foundation in statistical analysis, experimental design, hypothesis testing, and A/B testing; familiarity with evaluation metrics such as precision, recall, and Cohen's Kappa.
Nice to have
- NLP, LLM, or speech technology evaluation experience; regulated-industry experience and familiarity with PII/PHI data governance.
- MLOps and production deployment experience; familiarity with Langfuse, GCP, AWS, Azure, or Databricks.
Pay
$180k-230k USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Pydantic, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Langfuse, GCP, AWS
AI focus
Evaluates and improves LLM- and speech-based conversational AI, including LLM-as-a-Judge systems, datasets, benchmarks, calibration, and quality monitoring.
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