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Sprout Social is looking for an Applied AI/ML Scientist to join its AI Business Unit. Sprout Social empowers businesses worldwide to harness the immense power and opportunity of social media in today’s digital-first world. Processing over one billion social messages daily, our platform serves up essential insights and actionable information to over 30,000 brands, informing strategic decisions that drive business growth and innovation, and fostering deeper, authentic connections to their end customers. Our full suite of social media management solutions includes comprehensive publishing and engagement functionality, customer care solutions, influencer marketing, connected workflows, and business intelligence. We're actively working to intuitively weave AI throughout our products as well as applying them internally to drive our business’s growth trajectory.
Job Responsibility:
Design, develop, and deploy customer-centric features that leverage data science, machine learning (ML) and generative AI technologies
Contribute to tangible, quantifiable, and measurable impact on Sprout Social’s highest priority AI initiatives, directly benefiting our customers and driving key business outcomes
Develop robust frameworks for evaluation and measurement of AI features to increase speed, improve quality, and provide demonstrable ROI of product enhancements
Collaborate closely with product management, design, and software engineering partners to deliver high quality AI solutions quickly and confidently
Effectively communicate AI capabilities, limitations, and product implications, ensuring alignment between technical possibilities, customer needs, and product vision
Requirements:
A track record of supporting customer-centric development of AI/ML solutions that resulted in quantifiable business impact
2+ years of applied experience in AI/ML and data science, working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive impactful solutions
2+ years of experience developing models in Python using ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, LGBM, NumPy, pandas) and strong proficiency in SQL and RESTful APIs for querying, transforming, and analyzing large datasets to drive product vision
Expertise in analytical, statistical, and AI/ML methods, with a focus on shipping solutions that drive significant product improvement, resolve customer pain points, and demonstrably enhance user experiences
Experience building with transformer architectures and leveraging embeddings
Nice to have:
Rapidly prototyping with new, cutting-edge AI/ML technologies to explore their applicability and potential for business impact
Designing and executing A/B testing frameworks and other rigorous experimentation techniques to measure impact
Developing deep learning & NLP models
Developing large language model driven features, including evaluating, fine-tuning, optimizing performance, and prompt-engineering to enhance customer journeys
Creating APIs and leveraging services across platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, and Anthropic
Enforcing AI/ML model security, bias mitigation, and ethical AI/ML frameworks
What we offer:
100% Employer-Paid Health Benefits: comprehensive medical, dental (basic & major), vision, life insurance, and disability
Generous Paid Time Off: 25 days of vacation annually, plus 5 paid sick days, all public holidays, and additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days
Premium Mental Health Support: Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources
Annual Lifestyle Stipend: A $950 CAD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being
Remote Work Support: A one-time $550 USD (equivalent) stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD (equivalent) stipend for internet
Personalized Financial Wellness: No-cost, confidential access to financial experts through Your Money Line to support your personal financial goals
Family & Care Support: Access to subsidized child and eldercare options through Care.com
Charitable Giving: A company match for your donations to eligible organizations