# Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist at Sprout Social

- Company: Sprout Social
- What the company does: Maximize your social ROI with Sprout Social, trusted by 30k+ brands. Power everything from publishing and engagement to analytics and influencer marketing. Try 30 days free. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://sproutsocial.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $168K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-13
- Apply: https://sproutsocial.com/careers/open-positions/8226450/?gh_jid=8226450
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sprout-social-senior-applied-ai-ml-scientist/

## About the role

Own the development of agents and agentic features alongside our engineering teams. Scientists define what quality means for our agents, design and calibrate the evaluations and judges that measure it, decide which models to adopt and why, identify and implement improvements to core agentic capabilities, and hold the quality bar as we scale Sprout’s agentic platform. If you are energized by the question "how do we effectively use AI to solve hard problems for our customers”, then this is the role for you.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of applied AI/ML experience, with a strong track record in the evaluation, measurement, and quality of AI/ML or LLM systems that shipped and drove measurable impact
- Demonstrated experience designing evaluation frameworks, building and calibrating judges or automated evaluators, and establishing their reliability, for ML or LLM/agentic systems
- Strong judgment in model selection and validation: assessing whether one model or approach is genuinely better than another, and why
- Rigorous experimentation and statistical skills: A/B testing, power analysis, and sound measurement design
- Foundational ML and modeling knowledge (Python, common ML frameworks, transformers and embeddings) sufficient to reason about and evaluate the systems you assess. SQL and comfort with large datasets
- Ability to work closely with product, design, and engineering, and to translate technical quality questions into terms stakeholders can act on

Tags: Engineering

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