Staff Data Scientist

**About the role**:
**Why This Role Matters**

This is a pivotal moment at Nerdy: we're doubling down on AI as a catalyst for Human Interaction (AI for HI®). Our latest innovations—like real-time Tutor Copilot, AI-powered session summarization, predictive churn analytics, and agent-based lifecycle optimization—are transforming how we scale meaningful learning experiences. As a Staff Data Scientist, you'll shape the next wave of AI at Nerdy, working at the intersection of machine learning, product, and customer experience to build real-time, personalized systems that touch millions of learners.

**About Nerdy**:
**Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain the product and strategy and are the most effective way to learn about what the company is building.**
- **Q4-2024 Shareholder Letter**:

- **Q3-2024 Shareholder Lette**r**

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop customer facing algorithmic systems owning and leading the end-to-end lifecycle of data science, from problem definition, qualitative analysis, data gathering and preparation to model training and testing.
- Own evaluation strategy & outcomes through time ensuring the model keep performing
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to define, prototype, and help productionalize ML solutions that personalize live learning at scale.
- Develop offline and online evaluation strategies to ensure ongoing model performance and impact.
- Drive decisions around data strategy, model evaluation, and experimental design to ensure long-term model robustness and impact.
- Mentor peers across data science and analytics by sharing insights, reviewing work, and helping raise the technical bar.
- Understand and appreciate that Nerdy is an apolitical company and that we can have the largest impact if we are united in our focus on helping people learn and not divided or distracted by advancing unrelated causes.

**What we're looking for**:

- M.S. / PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Econometrics).
- 8+ years of professional data science experience, including shipping production ML systems in customer-facing products.
- Deep expertise in the areas of statistical inference, probability, machine learning (unsupervised and supervised).
- Proven track record of independently productionalize customer facing models that create impact and that have operation rigor.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using ML libraries and frameworks
- Experience with building recommender systems and implementation with a breadth of matching algorithms is a plus.
- Experience with LLMs, gen AI, MCP, agents and Natural Language Processing next to a classical understanding of ML models (classification, ranking systems).
- Relentlessly curious and strong focus on solving customer facing problems.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

**Benefits**:

- Competitive Salary
- Remote Position
- Flexible PTO
- Free Learning Membership for you and your household (1-1 tutoring hours, unlimited use of on-demand services, and access to our online classes)
- National holidays
- A fun, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment with plenty of training and a feedback-rich culture.
- Unique opportunity to help transform how the world learns
- Nerdy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status._