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From optimizing promotions to balancing demand and supply, Sciemo's platform transforms messy, siloed data into measurable business impact. Its AI agents assist decision-makers in real-time, turning complexity into clarity. We are headquartered in New York City.\nOVERVIEW\nWe are an industry-leading startup developing AI for consumer brands. Our solutions leverage machine learning, generative AI, agent-based systems, and graph technologies to get our customers to insights in seconds and to business impact in minutes using our products.\nWe are looking for a Data Architect to own the foundation everything else is built on, reporting to our Co-Founder & CAIO.\nROLE\nAs Data Architect, you will design and own the data platform that our AI products run on. You'll define how data enters our systems, how it's modeled, how it's governed, and how it's served to models, agents, and applications in production.\nThis is a senior, founding-level role. You will make the architectural decisions that determine how fast we can move for the next several years - schema and modeling standards, storage and compute strategy, data contracts between teams, and the governance practices that let us handle sensitive customer data responsibly. 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