Raydar
Applied AI Scientist
$170K–$300K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3-8 years in data science, forward deployed engineering, or solutions architecture.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM or quantitative field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa transfers may be supported, including H1B transfers and OPT case by case.
About the job
Partners with enterprise customers to apply AI to supply-chain prediction and optimization, from demos and prototypes through deployment, while quantifying business impact.
What you'll do
- Understand customer challenges and communicate them to technical and business stakeholders; lead demos and build prototypes and proofs of concept.
- Analyze customer data using Python and SQL to quantify business impact.
- Partner with customers through evaluations, pilots, and implementations; support deployments and help build the Applied AI team.
What they ask for
- Customer-facing experience managing enterprise deployments, pilots, demos, or operational data challenges.
- Ability to build custom demos and proofs of concept in Python and SQL.
- Strong machine learning and data science fundamentals, including experience selling a product requiring understanding of machine learning.
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM or quantitative field; ability to lead demos for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience at ML platforms, early-stage startups, or leading consulting firms.
- Hands-on builder mindset, comfort learning unfamiliar technologies, or experience with retail, consumer products, or supply chain data.
Pay
$170,000-$300,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, SQL
AI focus
Applies custom frontier AI models to enterprise supply-chain prediction and optimization; develops customer demos, prototypes, and proofs of concept.
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