# Staff ML Data Scientist

Staff ML Data Scientist, LLM Recommender Systems We’re looking for a top-tier ML Data Scientist to build, train, and deploy next-generation LLM-based recommender systems. You will work directly with a top notch science team, the AWS account team, and the AWS Applied Scientist leading the science. The role covers the full path from raw customer data to a deployed model. We are looking for a seasoned applied scientist with a multi-year record of production ML, not someone who recently moved over from analytics or data science generalism. Why This Role Matters At Robots & Pencils, we design AI systems for a human world. Our name says it all. Robots and pencils means engineering paired with creativity, because every system we ship has to work for real people in real workflows. Here, you shape how AI integrates into enterprise operations and how products create measurable impact for clients and the people they serve. We ship production-ready AI in 30 to 45 days. That pace demands people who take ownership, lead with craft, and care deeply about what they put their name on. What You’ll Do Turn structured and unstructured traveler and catalog data into narrative text documents and synthe

- **Id**: 4194898
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/robots-pencils-staff-ml-data-scientist>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T19:45:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T20:20:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: UI/UX Design, Custom Software Development, AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 7662
- **Name**: Robots & Pencils
- **Domain**: robotsandpencils.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/robots-and-pencils>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.714
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Trainium** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GRPO** — Optional: no
- **Hadoop** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LoRA** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **PPO** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **QLoRA** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **PEFT** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T20:20:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T22:33:54Z

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