AI Data Scientist

AI Data Scientist Location: San Francisco About the Team Our client is a leading private equity firm with a dedicated AI team that works directly with portfolio company leadership and the investment team to identify, size, and deliver applied AI opportunities. The team operates less like a research group and more like an internal consultancy with an engineering core, moving quickly from hypothesis to analysis to a shipped tool or a board-ready recommendation. The Role They're looking for a Data Scientist who can walk into a portfolio company, get hands-on with messy org, financial, and operational data, and come out with a clear, defensible view of where AI and automation can create value, plus a model that makes the case repeatable across a broad portfolio.

This is an applied, high-autonomy role, not a research posting or a slide-writing exercise. What You'll Do Partner with portfolio company teams to source, clean, and analyse workforce, financial, and operational data (headcount, spend, org structure, process data) Build and refine quantitative models that size AI-driven efficiency and value-creation opportunities by function, profession, or process Develop reusable analytical frameworks that scale a single company's analysis across the wider portfolio Translate findings into clear recommendations for investment committee materials and portfolio company leadership; you present your own work Partner closely with the team's software engineers to move models from notebook to