Senior Data Science Engineer, Data Science & Analytics (DSA) at Simbe Robotics – San Francisco, California

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join the Data Science & Analytics team, owning production-grade data pipelines from ideation through delivery. This is an engineering-forward DS role — you'll partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Commercial teams to ship reliable, user-facing features that surface insights from our retail data at scale.

You are someone who thrives at the intersection of data science and software engineering: you write production code, own the reliability of the systems you build, and drive cross-functional projects to completion without waiting to be unblocked.

Leveling (Senior or Staff) and compensation will be determined through the interview process based on your background and technical depth.

• Own production pipelines end-to-end — design, build, and maintain robust data science pipelines that run reliably in production, including monitoring, alerting, and iterative improvement

• Scope and deliver features — take ambiguous problems, define clear analytical approaches, and ship client-facing solutions in collaboration with Engineering and Product Management

• Drive cross-functional delivery — proactively identify blockers, align stakeholders across teams, and move projects forward with minimal oversight

• Apply AI tooling to accelerate work — leverage LLMs, agents, and other AI-assisted workflows to increase the speed and quality of analysis and development

• Translate retail data into decisions — connect store-level signals (inventory, on-shelf availability, task execution, etc.) to meaningful business outcomes for both internal teams and retail clients

• Raise analytical standards — establish best practices for reproducibility, documentation, and code quality across the team's DS work

• Build conversational data experiences — design and prototype AI agent or chatbot interfaces that allow internal or external users to query and explore retail data through natural language (nice to have)

• 5+ years of experience in data science or a closely related role, with demonstrable delivery of production features (not just research or prototyping)

• Strong Python skills; comfortable writing production-quality, version-controlled code

• Solid SQL and experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms (GCP/BigQuery preferred)

• Experience with dbt for data transformation — writing models, tests, and documentation as part of a production analytics engineering workflow

• Experience owning the full lifecycle of a data science feature: scoping, building, shipping, and maintaining

• Proven ability to work across functions — you've partnered with Engineering, Product, or Commercial teams and know how to communicate tradeoffs and drive alignment

• Retail industry experience strongly preferred (store operations, inventory, merchandising, supply chain, or equivalent)

• Hands-on experience using AI tools (LLM APIs, coding assistants, prompt engineering) to accelerate analytical work

• Ownership that matters — you'll have real scope over systems and features that run in production and directly affect how our retail partners operate

• Cutting-edge stack — GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, and an evolving AI toolchain with a strong appetite for experimentation

• High-signal environment — focused team where your work is visible and your technical judgment is trusted

• Retail at scale — Simbe's data spans thousands of stores and billions of shelf observations, a genuinely rich and challenging domain