Staff Data Scientist

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Clutch:

Clutch is Canadas largest online used car retailer delivering a seamless hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home get the right one delivered to their door and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee and thats just the beginning.

Named one of Canadas top growing Companies two years in a row and also awarded a spot on LinkedIns Top Canadian Startups list were looking to add curious hard-working and driven individuals to our growing team.

Headquartered in Toronto Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors including Canaan BrandProject Real Ventures D1 Capital and Upper90. To learn more visit .

About the role:

Clutch is hiring a Staff Data Scientist to lead major improvements to our pricing algorithms and applied machine learning systems.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in ambiguity can go deep on research and modeling and has a track record of deploying ML to production with measurable business impact. Youll work on ML systems that already drive real outcomes - including pricing models that purchase >$1M of vehicles per day with no human intervention - with significant opportunity to take them to the next level as we scale.

Youll join a small high-leverage data team where your work will be visible measurable and business-critical with the chance to expand into additional high-impact ML domains like lending logistics optimization fraud detection and this role youll own problem areas end-to-end from identifying opportunities and shaping the approach to shipping production models and driving measurable improvements in margin and conversion.

What youll do:

Own and drive improvements to Clutchs pricing algorithms balancing margin conversion and customer experience.
Deep-dive into market and vehicle data to identify the key relationships between vehicle attributes market dynamics and pricing outcomes.
Build validate and deploy ML models and algorithms into production and iterate quickly based on real-world performance.
Lead feature engineering model evaluation and experimentation design.
Partner with Product Engineering Strategy & Ops Sell-To-Clutch & Retail to prioritize the highest-impact opportunities.
Contribute to additional applied ML domains as needed including:

Financing / lending decisioning
Fraud detection
Search and discovery optimization
Vehicle recommendations / personalization

What were looking for:

8 Years of Experience: A proven track record as a Data Scientist with a history of delivering measurable business impact through machine learning.
0-to-1 Strategic Autonomy: Proven ability to navigate high-ambiguity environments. You own the roadmap by evaluating the data identifying untapped opportunities and formulating your own research theories.
End-to-End Technical Ownership: Deep Python proficiency with the ability to own the entire lifecycle: from raw data exploration and feature engineering to model architecture and production deployment.
Production-Grade ML: Strong experience building and deploying traditional ML algorithms into live environments ensuring they are robust scalable and maintainable.
Foundational Rigor: Strong statistical fundamentals and a disciplined approach to validation. You ensure that every model is built on a foundation of sound logic and clean data maintaining high standards for accuracy and reliability without external oversight.
Excellent Communication: Able to bridge the gap between complex technical findings and business ROI. You can distill black box complexity into clear trade-offs and actionable recommendations for business leaders.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

About Clutch:Clutch is Canadas largest online used car retailer delivering a seamless hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home get the right one delivered to their door and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-...