Mixpanel
Senior Data Scientist, AI Product Insights
$216K–$254K
San Francisco, US (Hybrid) +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA, United States - Experience
- 5+ years applying statistical modeling to real-world product or business problems.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent industry experience with demonstrated causal inference expertise.
About the job
Develops and validates statistical models and causal methods for Mixpanel’s proactive product insights, forecasting, simulation, and cohort-detection features.
What you'll do
- Own analytical design, methodology selection, statistical validation, and iteration for Signals, Forecasting, Simulation, and Cohort Detection.
- Build causal inference, time-series forecasting, survival, retention, and behavioral similarity models, and verify that production results behave as expected.
- Document methods and communicate findings to Product and Engineering; collaborate across teams to ensure outputs reflect business outcomes.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience with demonstrated causal inference expertise.
- Hands-on causal inference experience and experience applying statistical modeling to real-world product or business problems.
- Experience with survival analysis or retention modeling, time-series forecasting, and clustering or similarity methods applied to behavioral or user data.
- Strong Python and SQL fluency; ability to communicate statistical concepts clearly.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale behavioral event data, raw event streams, or productionizing offline batch analyses.
- Experience evaluating LLM-generated explanations or recommendations against statistical outputs; familiarity with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
Pay
$216,000 — $254,000 USD total target cash compensation (includes base compensation and variable compensation).
Tools
Python, statsmodels, scikit-learn, pandas, SQL, ARIMA, TimesFM, Chronos
AI focus
Builds the statistical reasoning layer for AI-driven proactive insights and increasingly agentic experiences; partners on translating model outputs, often via LLMs, into natural-language recommendations and may evaluate their grounding and consistency.
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