Quince
Staff Data Scientist, Planning and Forecasting
$288K–$315K
Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of applied data science or operations research experience.
- Education
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field preferred; PhD a plus.
About the job
Build and lead end-to-end data science workstreams for supply chain planning, including forecasting, inventory placement, vendor performance, and procurement signals.
What you'll do
- Own workstreams from methodology and production models through iteration and measured business impact.
- Set rigorous evaluation and experimentation standards, including for AI-assisted science workflows.
- Mentor scientists and partner with planning operators and engineering to turn operational needs into actionable models.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of applied data science or operations research experience, with deep expertise in one or two supply chain planning domains.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of modelling workstreams, from problem framing through production deployment, iteration, and measured business impact.
- Methodological breadth across forecasting and operations research, including classical, ML, and AI-driven approaches.
- Engineering fluency across feature pipelines, experiments, and model serving; detailed examples of AI-native science practice; and a track record of mentoring scientists.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field; PhD a plus.
Pay
$287,500 — $315,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, AI
AI focus
Use LLM-aided exploratory data analysis and feature work, agentic feature discovery, and AI-augmented experimentation; evaluate AI-driven models rigorously alongside other approaches.
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