Drimva

Upstart

Principal Data Scientist

$195K–$270K

United States +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026

Location
United States
Remote
remote
Experience
8+ years in data science or quantitative roles with direct impact on product or business strategy.

About the job

Sets data science strategy and builds measurement, experimentation, and decision-support tools for Upstart’s credit and subscription products.

What you'll do

  • Partner with product, marketing, finance, and ML leaders to frame business questions and guide decisions.
  • Design and interpret experiments and causal analyses; establish metrics and measurement strategies.
  • Build and own reusable tools such as forecasting, spend allocation, incrementality, and attribution models.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years of experience in data science or quantitative roles directly affecting product or business strategy.
  • Demonstrated mastery of experimental design and A/B testing, plus deep statistical expertise including causal inference.
  • Strong coding experience in Python or equivalent, with ability to build organizationally leveraged tools.
  • Track record of translating data into business decisions with non-technical stakeholders; exposure to ML applications and effective collaboration with ML/data science teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience in forecasting, spend allocation optimization, marketing incrementality, or attribution.
  • Familiarity with personalization, recommendation systems, or matching algorithms.

Pay

$195,300 — $270,400 USD (base salary); $182,800 — $230,000 CAD (base salary)

Tools

Python

AI focus

Partner with the ML organization on technical challenges, applying statistical rigor and causal reasoning; role also requires exposure to ML applications.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)