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Lead Data Scientist, Transparency & Observability - Trust and Safety

New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026

Experience
5+ years in Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Analytics, or a related quantitative field, including technical leadership of cross-team initiatives.
Education
Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Economics.

About the job

Leads the architecture and technical strategy for Trust & Safety metrics, observability, data foundations, and AI readiness, supporting internal decisions and external transparency reporting.

What you'll do

  • Design observability systems and metrics for the enforcement lifecycle, including monitoring, anomaly detection, alerting, and reporting.
  • Build governed, AI-ready data foundations, including data quality practices, ETL pipelines, workflow orchestration, and agent-consumable data systems.
  • Lead the Trust & Safety observability and AI-readiness roadmap, partnering across teams and mentoring data scientists and engineers.

What they ask for

  • Experience designing scalable data ecosystems, including data modeling, governed analytics layers, and production pipelines on large-scale platforms.
  • Strong SQL and Python skills; experience building data quality, monitoring, or observability solutions and organization-wide metrics frameworks.
  • Understanding of AI architecture patterns such as RAG, embeddings, and knowledge systems, plus responsible AI practices applied to operational workflows.
  • Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or Economics.

Nice to have

  • Experience in Trust & Safety, regulatory reporting, or compliance; familiarity with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) or similar global frameworks.
  • Experience driving program and change management across global, cross-functional teams.

Tools

Hive, Spark, SQL, Python, RAG

AI focus

Leads AI readiness across Trust & Safety, including AI-ready data foundations, agent-consumable data systems, AI architecture patterns, responsible and explainable AI adoption, and taking AI and data solutions from experimentation to reliable production.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)