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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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