Associate data scientist - ML Track

Company Overview

SoftSensor AI is a data science and analytics professional services firm headquartered in New Jersey, with delivery centers in India. We build AI / ML solutions that help organizations improve performance, reduce operational cost, and create intelligent products. Our teams operate across data, modeling, and engineering to ship measurable outcomes.

Role Overview

SoftSensor AI is hiring an Associate – Data Science for our Jaipur office. In this role, you will develop machine learning models, run disciplined experiments, and contribute to production-ready solutions. You will collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers to move from problem definition to model evaluation, integration, and performance measurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and evaluate machine learning models (regression, classification, clustering, time series) for client and product use cases.
• Perform data preprocessing, feature engineering, and EDA for structured and, when required, unstructured data.
• Establish strong baselines and iterate systematically via error analysis, ablations, and metric-driven improvements.
• Design evaluation methodologies (cross-validation, holdouts, leakage checks) and select appropriate metrics (precision / recall, ROC-AUC, RMSE, etc.).
• Partner with engineering on deployment patterns (batch scoring, APIs), model packaging, and monitoring (performance and drift proxies).
• Document model assumptions, limitations, and risks; support stakeholder reviews with clear narratives and recommendations.
• Contribute reusable code and internal accelerators (evaluation harnesses, preprocessing utilities, templates).
• Maintain standards for reproducibility and quality (version control, experiment tracking, clean code practices).

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

What Success Looks Like (First 3–6 Months)