Senior/Staff Applied Scientist
Senior/Staff Applied Scientist
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$ 175000 - 230000
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Job Description
About Glean
Were on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge create and synthesize information and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higherlevel creative aspects of their work.
Were building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface you can think of it as Google ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a companys knowledge together understands it at a deep level provides industryleading search relevance over it and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.
Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers who saw a need in the enterprise space for their technical depth and passion for AI. Were a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to help each other get big things doneso we can help other teams do the same.
Were backed by some of the Valleys leading venture capitalistsincluding Sequoia Kleiner Perkins Lightspeed and General Catalystand have assembled a worldclass team with senior leadership experience at Google Slack Facebook Dropbox LinkedIn Stripe Rubrik Uber Intercom Pinterest Palantir and others.
Role
Glean is building a worldclass Data Organization composed of product data science applied science data engineering and business intelligence groups. This is an applied science role based in our Palo Alto headquarters. It covers a subset of:
Ranking & RAG:
- Define KPIs create data foundations and build visualizations to measure the efficacy of Gleans worldleading document indexing retrieval ranking infrastructure which powers its search and LLMpowered products as well as other ways of content personalization such as ranking agents in an agent library.
- Conduct rigorous empirical analyses rooted in sophisticated techniques and a deep understanding of our ranking stack to identify & prototype ways to improve ranking at Glean. ML ENG teams would iterate & deploy these techniques into production.
A/B Experimentation:
- Collaborate with product data science and engineering teams to identify techniques tooling and process improvements in online A/B experimentation to assist rigorous decision making across all relevant product domains.
- Develop and maintain our A/B experimentation platform based on stakeholder feedback
- Write code or identify vendors to deploy these techniques to production in a scalable manner thats easy to use by engineering product data science product management and design teams
Generative AI evaluation:
- End to end evaluation of various hero use cases like document/URL uploads including evaluation set generation coming up with evaluation criteria and methods to interpret the results.
- Breaking down end to end evaluations into more granular evaluation of various tasks & skills including but not limited to content summarization/analysis/generation multistep reasoning & strategizing tool selection & use coding & system design.
- Design development and ownership of best practices tools and processes across various evaluation problems e.g. query intent classification standardizing the use of best statistical principles to handle LLM stochasticity industry benchmarking.
You will thrive at this role if:
You have a Masters/PhD degree in Statistics Mathematics or Computer Science or another quantitative field.
- You have 5 years of experience as a Masters degree holder 3 as a PhD degree holders
- Youre strong in statistics and/or machine learning. You have experience in applying these skills into tangible improvements in products internal tools and processes in a pragmatic way that puts business urgencies first.
- You are very proficient in Python e.g. proficient enough to maintain an internal sourcecontrolled library used by dozens of others.
- You are concise and precise in written and verbal communication. Technical documentation is your strong suit.
- You are proficient in SQL and the modern data stack (e.g. sourcecontrolled dbt pipelines for ETL/ELT).
- You are strong at defining good product KPIs/guardrail metrics dashboarding and analysis of raw data to derive strategic insights.
You are a particularly good fit if:
- You have experience in B2B SaaS.
- You have experience working on ranking developing and maintaining A/B experimentation platforms and/or ML measurement problems.
- You are passionate about using AI to improve the productivity of data teams as well as nondata professionals trying to derive more value of their companys data.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical Vision and Dental coverage
- Flexible work environment and timeoff policy
- 401k
- Company events
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Annual education stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
For California based applicants:
The standard base salary range for this position is $annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
