Senior Machine Learning Scientist

🌎 About Akvelon:

Akvelon is a US-based software engineering and consulting company partnering with Fortune 500 clients and innovative product companies worldwide. We specialize in AI/ML, cloud solutions, enterprise platforms, and large-scale data-driven systems.

We are currently hiring a Senior Data Scientist for a high-impact AI/ML product environment focused on digital identity, authentication, fraud prevention, and large-scale production ML systems.

The platform processes billions of events annually and serves enterprise customers across fintech, banking, healthcare, e-commerce, gaming, and payments domains.

You’ll work closely with ML Engineers and cross-functional teams on experimentation, model monitoring, statistical analysis, and production-grade machine learning systems that directly impact customer trust and business outcomes.

💻 Responsibilities:
• Develop, validate, and optimize ML/statistical models
• Design experiments and evaluate model performance
• Monitor deployed ML models for drift, reliability, and performance degradation
• Build dashboards and monitoring systems for model observability
• Collaborate with ML Engineers on deployment and production workflows
• Translate model insights into actionable business recommendations
• Work with raw data and optimize analytical workflows
• Communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders

✅ Requirements:
• 5+ years of commercial experience in Data Science / Applied ML
• Strong Python skills (pandas, scikit-learn)
• Strong background in statistics and experimentation
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with Snowflake
• Experience with production ML systems
• Experience with model monitoring, drift detection, retraining strategies
• AWS experience
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Upper-Intermediate+ English

➕ Nice to have:
• PyTorch or TensorFlow
• AI observability / fraud detection / identity systems
• Looker or similar BI tools
• API & deployment workflow understanding
• Experience mentoring engineers/data scientists

🕒 Work format:
• Full-time
• Remote
• PST overlap required (through 11 AM PST)
• Poland preferred

🎁 We offer:
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Flexible working schedule
• Remote-first environment
• Career Development Plan
• Paid certifications and external training
• Internal workshops and English classes
• Opportunity to work on production AI systems at scale
• Long-term collaboration with strong engineering teams