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We started in workforce-temp staffing, the biggest operational pain point for the manufacturing and logistics customers we serve-and used it to embed ourselves inside their daily operations and create a far better customer experience through technology. Now those same customers are pulling us beyond staffing into the broader operational workflows that run their facilities. That foundation gave us proprietary data from millions of shifts and deep enterprise relationships. But our edge is more than data: by connecting to the systems running across every facility and activating the workers already on our platform to execute against them, we are building applied AI that drives real productivity gains and transforms how the global supply chain operates at scale.\nWe are backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.\nTraba is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to join the founding Agents team and lead measurement and modeling for our agentic platform from 0→1. You’ll make the core calls on how agent quality is defined, measured, and improved; set the bar for statistical and scientific rigor; and build the evaluation, experimentation, and modeling foundations that every agent we ship is measured against.\nAs a Senior Data Scientist at Traba, you’ll own how we model and understand agent performance inside real customer workflows-capability, reliability, and unit economics-and partner with engineering, product, and operations leadership on the decisions that shape the platform.\nResponsibilities:\nProvide strategic insights and recommendations to senior leadership through in-depth statistical analysis and modeling.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain the metrics, models, and reporting that track agent quality, reliability, adoption, and unit economics for stakeholders across the Agents and Operations teams.\n\nBuild evaluation and experimentation as a first-class discipline-datasets from production traces, rubrics, automated graders, regression suites, and the experiment design and analysis that prove causation-so every agent improvement we ship is backed by evidence.\n\nIdentify key business challenges and opportunities-including agent failure modes, tool-use patterns, and cost and latency-and build statistical and machine-learning models to drive product improvements and growth initiatives.\n\nArchitect scalable analytics and modeling infrastructure to ensure data integrity, governance, and accessibility for both human and agent consumers.\n\nOversee the development and maintenance of Traba’s data warehouse to ensure data availability and governance.\n\nWork closely with the Agents team and Operations leadership to understand their data needs and provide actionable, statistically grounded insights that drive continuous process improvement and operational efficiency.\n\nProvide Operations teams with models, self-service analytics, and advanced technologies-including AI-assisted tools-enabling them to independently analyze operational data and optimize their daily activities.\n\nMentor the scientists and analysts who build alongside you, and set the standards that define what “good” looks like for measurement, modeling, and experimentation at Traba.\n\nQualifications:\nExperience: 4-8 years in data science, machine learning, applied statistics, or quantitative research, with 2+ years of hands-on work modeling or measuring LLM- or agent-based systems in production.\n\nEducation: BS/MS/PhD in data science, statistics, machine learning, computer science, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent work experience).\n\nTechnical Skills:\nStrong proficiency in Python and common ML and statistics libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, PyTorch, pandas, statsmodels).\n\nStrong proficiency in SQL.\n\nExperience designing and analyzing experiments (A/B testing) and applying statistical inference or causal methods.\n\nExperience with LLM evaluation and observability tools like Langfuse, Braintrust, or internal harnesses, and with building automated evaluators.\n\nCommunication Skills: Excellent data storytelling skills to effectively engage with stakeholders.\n\nCollaboration Skills: Strong ability to work across departments, identifying and prioritizing analytics problems to deliver actionable insights.\n\nCuriosity and Initiative: Intense curiosity to ask “why?” and use data to find answers, combined with a “no task too small” mentality.\n\nSelf-Motivation: Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\nBonus Skills:\nExperience with notebook tools like Jupyter, Hex, Hyperquery, or equivalent.\n\nExperience with modern data stack tools like dbt or equivalent.\n\nExperience building internal agents or MCP servers for analytics workflows, or prior work at a vertical AI or AI-native data company (e.g., Hex, Omni, dbt).\n\nExperience fine-tuning, distilling, or rigorously evaluating LLMs, or applying causal inference and experimentation at scale.\n\nBenefits:\nStart-up equity\n\nCompetitive Salary\n\n100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage\n\nDinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees\n\nCommuter benefit\n\nGympass Benefit\n\nAdditional: One Medical Membership, Gympass, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health\n\nSalary Range Details\nThe compensation range for this position is set between $180,000 and $215,000, reflecting our market analysis and other relevant considerations. However, exceptions may be made for candidates with qualifications that significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. We also offer a highly competitive equity package designed to ensure you share meaningfully in the long-term success and upside of the business.\nThe position is based onsite in New York City, five days per week, giving you the opportunity to collaborate closely with a high-performing team in a fast-paced, energetic environment. Being in person supports real-time decision-making, stronger teamwork, and the kind of creative problem-solving that drives meaningful impact.\nOur Values\nDream BIG - We are on a path to change the world for the better. We create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. We don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.\nOlympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. We work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. We put everything we have on the field.\nGrowth Mindset - We confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes we fail, but we brush ourselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.\nCustomer Obsession - We go the extra mile for our workers and businesses. We remain focused on delivering high-quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.\nWhat is Light Industrial Labor?\nLight industrial labor drives the efficiency of global supply chains, encompassing essential, entry-level roles in warehouses and distribution centers. These workers pack boxes, load trucks, and manage day-to-day operations that ensure goods move seamlessly to meet growing consumer and business demands. 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