Quince
Senior/Staff Data Scientist, Storefront
$171K–$285K
Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of industry experience as a data scientist; consumer-facing product or high-scale e-commerce experience strongly preferred.
- Education
- MS or PhD in statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or a highly quantitative field.
About the job
Own end-to-end data science and machine-learning work for Quince’s storefront, including personalization, search, and AI-powered shopping experiences.
What you'll do
- Build and refine near-real-time personalization, search, and relevance-ranking models; deploy them in production and run live experiments.
- Develop automated modeling pipelines and partner with Engineering on tracking, data quality, and performance monitoring.
- Translate business goals into data science solutions and communicate results to product, business, and leadership teams.
What they ask for
- Proven experience developing and deploying production-grade recommender systems, relevance ranking, or personalization pipelines.
- Experience with Generative AI or LLM application workflows, such as text parsing or context-driven query understanding.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with production knowledge of data science and machine-learning libraries.
- Strong productionalization skills and ability to balance model accuracy with latency and engineering constraints.
Nice to have
- Experience replacing or augmenting traditional NLP systems with LLMs.
- Familiarity with Looker or Tableau, or experience writing data product specifications with distributed engineering teams.
Pay
$171,000 — $285,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, Large Language Models (LLMs), Claude, GPT, Looker, Tableau
AI focus
Build near-real-time personalized and Generative AI-driven storefront experiences, including LLM-powered natural-language search, query understanding, semantic search, and language retrieval.
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