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Since 2020 we’ve backed 300+ startups (Rain, Pump, Synthetix, Pendle, and many more), now collectively valued at $15B+.\nWe’re hiring a Data Scientist to join our in-house engineering team. You’ll report directly to Carter (CTO) and will be responsible for owning features from the requirements definition stage to production.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn data science and analytics end-to-end: turn ambiguous questions into analysis, models, internal tools, and production systems without waiting on a PM or a large engineering team.\nBuild production Python systems for data collection, enrichment, scoring, and AI-assisted research across internal and external data sources.\nDevelop and improve predictive models: define features, build evaluation datasets, run experiments, catch leakage and data-quality issues, and move successful work from research into reliable production releases.\nWrite SQL and own reporting including dashboards, recurring reports, one-off investigations, and reconciliation against source data.\nTurn messy data into useful decisions for investing, portfolio support, operations, and growth. The output should be understandable and actionable, not just statistically interesting.\nWork directly with stakeholders to decide what is worth building, explain findings clearly, and iterate based on how the work is actually used.\nWhat we’re looking for\nSenior, self-directed data scientist or analytics engineer who can take a loosely defined business problem from first query through a production-quality answer.\nDeep experience with Python and SQL; comfortable working across notebooks, application code, APIs, and Metabase.\nStrong applied modeling judgment: feature design, evaluation, missing data, leakage, calibration, interpretability, and knowing when a simple approach is better.\nEnough data engineering depth to ship your own work: build pipelines, integrate APIs, debug bad source data, and maintain production workflows without heavy engineering support.\nClear communicator with good product judgment who can work directly with non-technical stakeholders and turn analysis into a recommendation or operating tool.\nExtremely high-agency, entrepreneurial, self-driven.\nComfortable using modern AI tools and LLMs for analysis, enrichment, evaluation, and automation without treating model output as ground truth.\n NYC-based or willing to relocate (non-negotiable).\nExamples of strong qualifications (good to have but not required)\nShipped data products or models that people actually use, with evidence of owning the path from raw data and experimentation through production and iteration.\nStrong public work: a standout GitHub, useful open-source contributions, published research, technical writing, or unusually good independent analysis.\nExperience applying data science to venture, finance, marketplaces, growth, CRM, or other messy operational datasets.\nExperience building LLM evaluation systems, structured extraction pipelines, or AI-assisted research products.\nFounder or early data hire at a fast-moving startup, especially where you operated without a dedicated data platform or large engineering team.\nClear signals of exceptional quantitative ability: strong research, competition results, Math/Physics Olympiad performance, or a top technical academic background.\nWhy NOT join us\nNot willing to get hands dirty: doesn’t matter how important you were in past organizations; at Alliance we’re all builders, not managers (even though many of us were managers in past lives).\nPrioritizing work/life balance: this role demands focus, hunger, and a career-defining level of commitment. You must be locked in.\nLow agency: if you need someone else to set your priorities or keep you on track, you will fail.\nYou can’t relocate to NYC. This is non-negotiable: our founders are here, and so are we.\nWhy join us\nWork with the most ambitious founders in crypto and AI. Learn firsthand from hundreds of startups succeeding - or failing.\nJoin a small, high-trust, high-performance team with outsized impact. We’re ex-Meta, WhatsApp, Coinbase, YC, and have collectively founded multiple venture-backed startups.\nWe’re backed by S-tier investors including Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, Multicoin, and Dragonfly, along with angels such as Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO), Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI), Kevin Lin (Twitch co-founder), and Jeremy Allaire (Circle CEO), among many others.\nDirect ownership and visibility: your work shapes how the next generation of founders discovers Alliance.\nCareer accelerator: this role sets you up, experience- and network-wise, for any high-impact path in crypto/AI - at startups, venture firms, or your own company.\nAlliance startups are reinventing industries - from media to payments - and improving the lives of everyday people. 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