Shuttlebase
Applied Scientist, Behavior Modeling
$165K–$220K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Education
- PhD or equivalent research experience in a quantitative field.
About the job
Build and deploy models that use website session events to predict visitor behavior, identify buying intent, and tailor page versions to different audiences.
What you'll do
- Develop behavior embeddings from raw session events and evaluate sequence-modeling approaches.
- Use the model to identify buying intent and group visitors into audiences for page personalization on live stores.
- Evaluate relevant research on company data and publish useful findings.
What they ask for
- PhD or equivalent research experience in a quantitative field.
- Hands-on experience training and evaluating a model on messy real-world sequence or time-series data.
- Knowledge of recent sequence-learning methods, including transformers, self-supervised pre-training, and embeddings.
- Strong Python skills and ability to retrieve data using SQL.
Nice to have
- Experience with recommendation systems, user behavior data, large event datasets, or eCommerce.
- Experience modeling behavior or sequences.
Pay
$165K – $220K (base salary)
Tools
Python, ClickHouse, AWS, SQL, transformers
AI focus
Develop AI models that learn from website visitor behavior, predict buying intent, group audiences, and personalize page experiences.
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