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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