AI data scientist

Full Time

Remote

As an AI Data Scientist, you’ll sit at the intersection of product, data, and AI innovation. Your job is to make sense of messy candidate responses, distill answers into signal, and help Truffle continue to deliver nuanced hiring intelligence at scale. You’ll build data pipelines, define models, and partner closely with product and engineering to turn qualitative insights into quantitative magic. We’re looking for someone who can mix rigor with creativity. You should love building things that are both statistically sound and beautifully useful.
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About Truffle

Truffle is building the hiring OS for modern teams. We turn voice-based, async interviews into structured, human-centered insights—so teams can spend less time screening and more time finding their people. With customers like Urban Athlete and Baseworx, we’re already helping businesses across industries hire smarter, faster, and more fairly.

We believe hiring is a craft. And our job is to build tools that elevate it.

What You'll Do

  • Build data models that matter – Translate open-ended responses into structured insights using statistical, NLP, and ML techniques
  • Shape our AI screening engine – Design features, scoring models, and analysis tools that power Truffle’s async interview platform
  • Scale what works – Collaborate with Product and Engineering to turn 1:1 insights into scalable features
  • Partner with stakeholders – Work with our CEO, PMs, and clients to identify blind spots, test assumptions, and prototype fast
  • Design for the real world – Make tradeoffs that prioritize explainability, usability, and ethical AI over academic elegance

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years in analytics, data science, or applied machine learning, ideally in fast-moving SaaS or hiring-tech environments
  • Strong SQL and DBT experience – You’ve designed robust models and love clean data lineage
  • Applied ML and NLP skills – You know when a simple logistic regression outperforms the hottest transformer model
  • Python fluency – You’re comfortable building pipelines, training models, and pushing prototypes into production
  • Experience with voice/text data – Sentiment analysis, entity recognition, or transcript parsing is a big plus
  • Product mindset – You think in tradeoffs, speak human (not just data), and care deeply about the end-user experience
  • Bias-aware builder – You understand the ethical weight of AI in hiring and design with fairness in mind

Bonus Points

  • Built or contributed to hiring intelligence products
  • Familiarity with cloud data stacks (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
  • Experience in early-stage, high-ownership startup environments
  • BI tooling experience (Metabase, Looker, etc.)
  • Knowledge of key hiring metrics (conversion rates, time-to-fill, screening funnel performance, etc.)

Why Join Truffle

  • You’ll shape the core intelligence layer of a fast-growing, mission-driven startup
  • You’ll work with a team that values humility, speed, and real impact
  • You’ll have autonomy, ownership, and room to grow with us

Truffle is building something different; software that elevates the human side of hiring. If you’re excited about turning voice into signal and gut-feel into insight, we’d love to hear from you.