# Staff Data Scientist | NLP at Machinify

- Company: Machinify
- What the company does: Backed by Battery and GV.
- Company website: http://www.machinify.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/machinifyinc/jobs/4146869009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/machinify-staff-data-scientist-nlp/

## About the role

We're hiring a Data Scientist focused on natural language processing to build models that turn unstructured text into product features and business insight. You'll own problems end-to-end — framing, data, modeling, evaluation, and shipping — and work closely with engineering and product to put your work in front of users.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of applied ML experience with a meaningful portion in NLP
- Strong Python and the modern NLP stack: PyTorch or JAX, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy, sentence-transformers
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models (LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, preference optimization) and/or building production RAG systems
- Solid grounding in evaluation: knows the difference between BLEU/ROUGE/BERTScore/LLM-as-judge and when each is misleading
- Comfortable with SQL, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar), and one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Clear written and verbal communication, can defend a modeling choice and also admit when a heuristic beats a model

Tags: Data Science