# Data Scientist (Forward Deployed) at Fundamental

- Company: Fundamental
- What the company does: Built by Fundamental, a frontier AI research lab, NEXUS is the Large Tabular Model reimagining enterprise decision-making. Backed by Battery.
- Company website: https://fundamental.tech/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US (remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-06-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fundamental/cc862e89-7d13-4a6d-b15d-21703e44b7dd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fundamental-data-scientist-forward-deployed/

## About the role

You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI You’ll work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing the work of data engineering, feature engineering, and validation

## What they're looking for

- You hold a PhD / master in CS / Math / Stats or you have equivalent deep statistical literacy
- You have 2+ years as a technical individual contributor (data scientist or software engineer)
- You have experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration, and writing performant APIs (FastAPI/Flask)
- You master the end-to-end pipeline, from framing, pre-processing, ml algorithm and validation strategies
- You have a deep understanding of data handling (PySpark, Pandas) and memory optimization
- You have demonstrated experience optimizing models for a specific business problem

Tags: Commercial