[8BE] Senior Data Scientist (Statistical Modeling)

- Full-time

We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects Our aim? To always be one step ahead. Become part of a multicultural company in constant growth with an excellent work environment certified by Great Place To Work

We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in probabilistic AI and statistical machine learning to support a client's e-commerce platform. In this role, you'll design and validate probabilistic models — covering dynamic pricing, shipping cost estimation, recommendations, and segmentation — while working closely with our solution architect, the client's CTO, and the client's engineering team to shape how those models fit into the platform's architecture.

Key Responsibilities

- Bayesian modeling and inference: Design and implement Bayesian statistical models — priors, likelihoods, and posterior inference — to support decisioning under uncertainty across pricing, segmentation, and demand-related use cases.
- Markov chains and Hidden Markov Models: Build Markov chain and Hidden Markov Model formulations for sequential and behavioral patterns (e.g., customer lifecycle stages, state transitions), producing outputs that downstream services can consume.
- MCMC and Metropolis-Hastings sampling: Apply Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, including Metropolis-Hastings sampling, to estimate posterior distributions for models without closed-form solutions, and validate convergence and sampling quality.
- Mixture modeling: Develop mixture models — Gaussian Mixture Models in particular — to support segmentation use cases,



identifying latent customer or product groupings from transactional and behavioral data.
- Expectation-Maximization: Implement Expectation-Maximization for latent-variable estimation underlying mixture models and related unsupervised learning tasks.
- Architecture collaboration: Work alongside our solution architect and the client's CTO to align model design with platform architecture. While this is not an architecture-ownership role, you should be able to reason about integration points, service boundaries, and technical tradeoffs well enough to operate with a reasonable degree of autonomy and reduce the support load on the architect.
- Production translation: Guide backend engineering on how statistical models translate into production service architecture — informing API design, data contracts, and integration points within the platform's existing microservices and event-driven pipelines.
- Model lifecycle management: Define the approach for model training, validation, versioning, monitoring/drift detection, and retraining cadence once models are in production.
- Roadmap collaboration: Partner with delivery and engineering leads to size, sequence, and estimate probabilistic/statistical modeling initiatives on the product roadmap.
- Documentation and handoff: Document modeling assumptions, methodology, and validation results,



and provide clear hand-off guidance so models remain maintainable by the engineering team after the engagement.

- 90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills.
- Senior-level experience, with the ability to communicate confidently with both technical and business stakeholders, should be comfortable discussing business impact and tradeoffs directly with CTO.
- Strong, demonstrable background in designing Bayesian statistical models, Markov chains, Hidden Markov Models, MCMC methods (including Metropolis-Hastings sampling), mixture models (ideally Gaussian Mixture Models), and Expectation-Maximization — classical predictive modeling, not standard modern supervised/LLM-based ML.
- Experience designing statistical/ML models with production deployment in mind is strongly preferred; hands-on production implementation is a plus but not mandatory — the priority is the ability to architect the modeling approach and guide engineering through it.
- Proficiency in Python (or R) with standard probabilistic/statistical libraries (e.g., PyMC, Stan, scikit-learn, NumPy/SciPy) for model development and validation.
- Ability to reason about how statistical/mathematical models translate into service-oriented production architecture — understanding of APIs, data contracts, and how to work directly with backend engineers and architects to integrate models.
- Solid understanding of version control, testing practices, and CI/CD, sufficient to collaborate effectively with an engineering team on production delivery.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain model behavior, assumptions, and uncertainty to non-technical stakeho

📌 [8BE] Senior Data Scientist (Buenos Aires)
🏢 Software Mind
📍 Buenos Aires