# Principal Data Scientist

COMPANY DESCRIPTION Extuitive is a Flagship Pioneering-backed startup reimagining product innovation for the AI era. Our mission is to revolutionize go to market for planning and execution for the agentic age. Based in Cambridge, MA, we operate like a special ops unit-fast-moving, data-driven, and relentlessly focused on impact. THE ROLE As a Principal Data Scientist, you’ll be a technical leader responsible for the full lifecycle of the models and data science systems that predict and optimize advertising performance across channels. You’ll define the learning problems, training data, targets, and business outcomes to influence; train and rigorously validate the right models offline; and take the technology to market through customer-facing validation. You’ll work across paid social, search, display, video, and emerging channels, translating complex, noisy advertising data into robust models, explainable decisions, and measurable customer value as our platform and data scale. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Define Learning Targets & Model Advertising Performance - Identify the customer decision and business intervention to influence; construct training labels and measurement windows; assess

- **Id**: 123034
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flagship-pioneering-principal-data-scientist>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-25T15:21:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T07:03:53Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-04T07:03:53Z
- **Days open**: 70
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9346
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Venture Capital

## Company

- **Id**: 8393
- **Name**: Flagship Pioneering
- **Domain**: flagshippioneering.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flagshippioneering>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.444
- **Repost share**: 0.111
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 179000
- **Max**: 236500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 236500

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **Interpretability** — Optional: yes
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 70

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-25T15:21:19Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T07:03:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 10; Filings prev 12m: 3; Green card filings 12m: 2

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 236500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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