Role Description This is an independent contractor opportunity. The role will start as a 3-month contract, with opportunities for extension based on mutual alignment. The Human Frontier Collective (HFC) brings together top researchers and domain experts to collaborate on high-impact work that are shaping the future of AI. As an HFC Fellow, you’ll apply your academic and professional expertise to help design, evaluate, and interpret advanced generative AI systems—while gaining exposure to cutting-edge research and working alongside an interdisciplinary network of leading thinkers. What You’ll Do - Senior Advisory & Model Governance: Provide elite-level consultancy on model behavior and domain-specific logic, establishing the benchmarks for professional integrity. - High-Impact Research Collaboration: Influence the technical roadmap by partnering with Scale AI's research, delivery, and GTM teams to design sophisticated, small-scale tasks that translate expert-level intuition into rigorous, computable frameworks for frontier model evaluation. - Executive Client Engagement: Represent the Human Frontier Collective as a Subject Matter Expert during pivotal sales cycles, executive meetings, and conferences. - Visionary Creation: Contribute to the creation of premier technical content and strategic GTM assets that ultimately helps position Scale as the definitive leader in the industry. - Contribute to Research Publications: Collaborate with Scale’s research team to co-author technical reports and research papers, boosting your academic visibility and professional recognition (e.g., SciPredict, PropensityBench, Professional Reasoning Benchmark). - HFC Community: Become a foundational member of the Human Frontier Collective; a supportive, interdisciplinary network of innovators. Gain exclusive access to a community of industry leaders and AI researchers dedicated to advancing the frontier of data. Qualifications - 5+ years of relevant industry experience with strong, top-tier domain knowledge. - Proven track record of operating at the top of their field and applying deep expertise in high-impact, real-world environments across finance, legal, medical, or related fields. - Ideal background includes but is not limited to: - Finance Domain: IB/PE/VC C-Suite, VPs, or Directors from Bulge Bracket or Elite Boutiques (e.g., Goldman Sachs, Blackstone), Senior Managers, Senior Associates, or Senior Analysts from top-tier firms. - Legal Domain: Partners or Senior Counsel at V100 firms; former SCOTUS/Federal Clerks, and Senior Associates from Big Law with active bar membership. - Medical Domain: Board-certified MDs from premier academic hospitals (e.g., Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic). Practicing physicians with at least 5 years of post-residency experience from premier hospitals. - Based on your specific expertise, we are looking for candidates who hold advanced degrees (PhD, or Masters, MD/DO, or JD) coupled with significant clinical, legal, or financial practice. - Demonstrated research experience, analytical thinking, proficiency in problem formulation, and an interest in interdisciplinary AI applications. - Self-driven and detail-oriented, with a deep passion for applied AI research. An innovative thinker who pairs intellectual curiosity with a commitment to collaboration within an elite community of researchers and AI professionals. Benefits - Professional Development: High-impact experts expand their influence through review projects, advisory roles, and research—while deepening their AI expertise, strengthening analytical and problem-solving skills, and engaging with pioneering AI applications in science and technology. - Join a Top-Tier Network: Collaborate with a global network of academics and experts to advance responsible AI through impactful, flexible research and training. 80% of our members come from leading institutions. - Flexible Schedule: ~5–20 hours per week, with the ability to set your own schedule around existing commitments. - Competitive Pay: We are offering $300/hr. USD for this role across all three domains; Finance, Legal, and Medical. Application Process - Apply: We review applications on a rolling basis. - Interview: Candidates will get to discuss their research experience, professional background, and alignment with our mission to advance human-centered AI. - Join the Collective: Successful candidates will receive an invitation to join the Human Frontier Collective Program as a Research Advisor.

• Work with Associate Data Scientists and Data Scientists in researching data sources, data cleansing, feature engineering, and creating baseline models • Independently manage multiple data science model development/projects • Collaborate and engage with various cross-functional stakeholders to ensure close coordination between data science and business stakeholders including the product management team • Provide full ownership of the model development from inception to implementation including the machine learning pipeline, documentation, model drift, and remodeling strategy • Mentor the Associate Data Scientists and Data Scientists in data science knowledge and their interactions with other stakeholders • Coordinate with the ML team, anticipating deployment issues upfront, setting the stage for resource requirements, and ensuring the success of model deployment and retraining • Take and delegate ownership of critical tickets or issues faced by business stakeholders as assigned by the Lead Data Scientist or Director of Data Science • Read and independently navigate through extensive codebase with a focus on troubleshooting, debugging, and/or improvement of code • Contribute to coding standards and coding conventions and proactively participate in enforcing sound coding practices across the data science team • Create and maintain documentation of the ML models, data sources, and methodology • Assist in the creation of feasibility documents • Proactively participate in the core team processes including R&D, recommending, and implementing process improvements or new methodologies • Share knowledge with other various teams and members by presentation at periodic internal team sessions/workshops • Guide usage of development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and assist in their implementation in the group projects by deciphering details including features, tasks, estimates of efforts and timing, etc.

• Develop, test and refine machine learning models applied to credit, fraud, risk and user behavior. • Explore new techniques, features and analytical approaches with a focus on real business impact. • Participate in the full end-to-end model lifecycle, including design, implementation and maintenance of data and ML pipelines in production, ensuring stability and performance. • Work closely with Engineering, Product and Risk teams to translate business problems into analytical solutions and scalable models. • Perform exploratory analyses, tests, experiments and model performance evaluations. • Monitor business metrics and model performance, helping to identify improvement opportunities. • Contribute to development best practices, versioning and the team’s technical quality.

ABOUT THRIVE MARKET Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,700,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company. Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come. THE ROLE At Thrive Market, our ML (Data Science) team drives meaningful impact for both our members and the business by transforming data into insights, models, and systems that shape every part of the e-commerce grocery journey. From powering search, recommenders and personalization to optimizing lifecycle engagement, our data scientists ensure decision-making and product experiences are grounded in rigorous analysis and scalable intelligence. We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to play a critical role within our ML team. In this role, you’ll own high-impact analytical and modeling initiatives end-to-end, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to influence strategy, improve customer experience, and drive measurable business outcomes. You will be expected to operate with significant autonomy, demonstrate strong judgment in problem framing and solution design, and raise the overall bar for data science excellence across the organization. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Own and deliver high-impact data science initiatives, from problem definition and data exploration to modeling, validation, and productionization, driving measurable improvements in customer experience and business metrics. - Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Analytics to shape roadmaps, define success metrics, and translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped analytical or modeling solutions. - Partner with Engineering and Devops to deploy, operate, and scale ML workloads using cloud-native infrastructure and MLOps tooling (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Lambda, S3, ECR, Docker, Kubernetes). - Design, build, and iterate on statistical models, machine learning systems, and decision frameworks (e.g., personalization, ranking, forecasting, experimentation analysis). - Lead rigorous experimentation and measurement practices, including A/B test design, hypothesis formulation, metric selection, causal inference, and interpretation of results. - Communicate insights, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decisions at the pod and org level. - Ensure high standards of quality and reliability in data science outputs through code reviews, model validation, documentation, and monitoring. - Proactively identify opportunities and risks in data, modeling, or experimentation approaches, and drive improvements that enhance scalability, accuracy, and long-term impact. - Mentor and support other data scientists through technical guidance, feedback, and best-practice sharing, without direct people management responsibility. QUALIFICATIONS: - 5+ years of experience in data science, applied machine learning, or a related quantitative role, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end projects. - Strong grounding in ML, statistics, experimentation and data analysis, including hypothesis testing, causal reasoning, and metric design. - Experience building and deploying production-grade models or analytical systems in collaboration with engineering teams, including hands-on experience with cloud-based ML infrastructure (e.g., AWS SageMaker, Lambda, S3, ECR) and containerized workflows (Docker, Kubernetes). - Proven experience designing, analyzing, and interpreting A/B tests in production environments, aligned to business or product goals, including defining success metrics and guarding against common statistical pitfalls. - Ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, Analytics, Design, Data Engineering), translating between business context and technical solutions. - Strong problem-framing and prioritization skills, particularly in ambiguous or under-specified problem spaces. - Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience using modern data and ML tooling. - Ownership mindset: proactively identifying problems worth solving, taking accountability for outcomes, and driving initiatives forward independently. PREFERRED: - Hands-on experience with search, personalization, recommendations, ranking, or lifecycle modeling. - Experience with MLOps best practices, including model versioning, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, and operating models in containerized and orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes). - Experience in e-commerce, marketplace, or subscription-based businesses. - Familiarity with working in environments with moderate technical debt or evolving data foundations. - Experience defining and owning metrics, experimentation frameworks, or model performance monitoring in production. - Demonstrated ability to influence beyond immediate project scope, shaping best practices, standards, or strategy across teams. BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY: - Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability) - Competitive salary (DOE) + equity - 401k Employer Match - 9 Days of Observed Holidays - Flexible Paid Time Off - Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences - Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista - Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount - Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process. At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply. Thrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer At Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree! Employment with Thrive Market requires that employees be based in the United States. This is a condition of employment and must be maintained throughout the duration of employment. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at eeo@thrivemarket.com and we’ll be happy to assist you. Ensure your Thrive Market job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Thrive Market never seeks payment from job applicants. Thrive Market recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @thrivemarket.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarket.com. © Thrive Market 2026 All rights reserved. JOB INFORMATION - Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $190,000/Per Year. - Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location. - Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more! - This position requires traveling to our HQ office in Los Angeles, California, twice a year for all-company summits; once in the summer and once in the winter.