# Senior Data Scientist, AI Product Insights at Mixpanel

- Company: Mixpanel
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: http://mixpanel.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $175K to $213K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mixpanel/jobs/8115028
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mixpanel-senior-data-scientist-ai-product-insights/

## About the role

As the first Data Scientist embedded in product engineering, you'll champion integrating cutting-edge data science techniques into Mixpanel's products and serve as a methodological resource for cross-functional teams tackling problems that benefit from deeper DS expertise — such as adaptive experimentation. You won't just advise on Proactive Insights; you'll be the analytical brain driving how Signals, Forecasting, Simulation, Predictions, and Cohort Detection actually work.

## What they're looking for

- MS or PhD in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field — or equivalent industry experience with demonstrated causal inference expertise
- 5+ years of experience applying statistical modeling to real-world product or business problems
- Hands-on causal inference experience — propensity score matching, regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, or instrumental variables — with the judgment to choose the right method for a given problem
- Experience with survival analysis or retention modeling (e.g. Cox proportional hazards, Kaplan-Meier)
- Strong Python fluency across the analytical stack — statsmodels , scikit-learn , pandas , and equivalent libraries for survival analysis, clustering, and time-series modeling
- Experience with time-series forecasting methods — classical approaches (ARIMA, exponential smoothing) and/or modern foundation models such as TimesFM, Chronos, or similar

Tags: Engineering