高级数据科学家
Senior Data Scientist
**我们是谁**
在Murmuration，我们相信美国的承诺是由其社区的最佳理念和理想不断塑造和重塑的，以及那些相信自己、家庭和彼此能过上更好生活的人的梦想。
我们通过四种关键方式帮助组织在其社区中建立力量：我们组建一个价值观一致的合作伙伴网络；我们提供深入的数据驱动洞察，了解人们、地点和观点；我们开发使组织和参与变得简单且更有效的工具；我们提供服务，增强合作伙伴在社区中引领变革的能力。
我们设想一个美国，每个社区都有所需资源，让人们过上健康、自由和有尊严的生活。我们致力于重新设计我们所有人都依赖的系统和结构——我们如何学习、生活、治理和解决问题——使其公正、公平、有韧性，并以共同责任为基础。通过加强维系社区的纽带，我们希望实现由集体行动和关怀定义的公民生活，有真正代表所有人的有效领导。
我们是一支协作、好奇、富有创造力的团队，成员包括组织者、科学家、教师、技术专家、竞选老兵等，我们坚信可以利用我们的才能来共同改变美国。我们以“整体大于部分之和”的信念打造团队。因此，我们全力以赴地支持彼此——以同样的方式面对挑战，也庆祝彼此的胜利。
**职位简介**
作为Murmuration的高级数据科学家，你将实践“全栈”数据科学，从构想阶段到实施阶段全程推动问题解决。数据科学团队处理包含数亿条记录的多样化数据集，进行数据分析、构建数据管道并提取见解，以支持Murmuration的数据和工具。这项工作的一个核心部分是我们的预测系统：我们使用选民档案和其他补充数据集，构建预测个人行为和观点的评分，例如投票意愿、支持某个议题或在竞选中做志愿者的可能性。这些评分帮助竞选活动和组织者更有效地分配资源，在正确的时间接触到正确的人。在这个职位上，你将推动这项工作向前发展，开发创新的方法，重点关注竞选数据模型和实体解析。作为团队的资深成员，你将指导开发人员。
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**Who We Are**
At Murmuration, we believe that America’s promise is shaped and reshaped by the best ideas and ideals of its communities, and the dreams of the people who believe in a better life for themselves, their families, and each other.
We help organizations build power in their communities in four key ways: we organize a network of values-aligned partners; we provide deep, data-driven insights into people, places, and perspectives; we develop tools that make organizing and engagement easy and more effective; and we offer services that strengthen our partners’ capacity to lead change in their communities.
We envision an America where every community has what it needs to help people lead healthy, free, and dignified lives. We work to redesign the systems and structures we all depend on — how we learn, live, govern, and solve problems — so that they are just, equitable, resilient, and rooted in shared responsibility. By strengthening the ties that hold communities together, we aim for civic life defined by collective action and care, with effective leadership that truly represents everyone.
We are a collaborative, curious, and creative team of organizers, scientists, teachers, technologists, campaign veterans, and more who share the unwavering belief that we can use our gifts in service of transforming America — together. We’ve built our team guided by the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. And so we support each other relentlessly — rallying together to face challenges the same way we celebrate each other’s wins.
**About the Position**
As a Senior Data Scientist at Murmuration, you’ll practice “full-stack” data science, shepherding problems from ideation to implementation. The Data Science team works on diverse datasets with hundreds of millions of records to analyze data, build pipelines, and derive insights to power Murmuration’s data and tools. A core part of this work is our predictive stack: we use the voter file and other supplemental datasets to build scores that predict individual behaviors and beliefs, such as likelihood to turn out to vote, support an issue, or volunteer on a campaign. These scores help campaigns and organizers allocate their resources more effectively, reaching the right people at the right time. In this role, you will help drive this work forward, developing innovative methodologies with a focus on campaign data models and entity resolution. As a senior member of the team, you’ll mentor developing data scientists and junior analysts and collaborate closely with the engineering, product, and research teams.
Job Level P4
**What You’ll Do**
- Lead and execute data science projects, including predictive modeling, algorithm design, and data pipelines;
- Develop innovative, industry-leading campaign data science models, specifically partisanship and turnout models;
- Independently (and often collaboratively) explore data sets for insights and understanding what can help drive product development and feature prioritization;
- Transform data into actionable and compelling insights through analysis and visualization, and then effectively communicate these data-driven stories to internal and external stakeholders through memos and presentations;
- Collaborate with the Engineering Team to take data science products and concepts into production;
- Provide guidance and mentoring to level-up junior data scientists in both formal and informal learning sessions; and
- Apply emerging AI technologies to R&D challenges; you’ll prototype novel approaches, evaluate feasibility, and bridge the gap between cutting-edge capabilities and practical usability.
- 6+ years of work experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent role producing models and analytics for business applications;
- Deep understanding of advanced data science techniques, machine learning algorithms, and optimization methods;
- Experience building and deploying machine learning models;
- Proficiency in data engineering and data pipelines;
- Skill in using advanced data visualization tools and techniques to effectively communicate insights and tell compelling stories with data;
- Mastery of programming languages (Python and SQL), version control (Git), and ability to learn and apply new data science tools and techniques efficiently;
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities, strong leadership skills, and ability to communicate insights strategically to influence team direction;
- Ability to mentor and guide junior team members in their technical growth and development; and
- Capacity to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
**Nice to Haves**
- Domain expertise in organizing and advocacy;
- Experience working with voter file data and in campaign data science;
- Familiarity with data engineering tools such as dbt and Dagster;
- Experience with polling methodologies, survey analysis, and multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) modeling; and/or
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Talented Data Scientists come from all walks of life and career. If you are passionate about civic engagement and technology, please apply, even if you do not check every box!
**Location and Compensation**
The Senior Data Scientist is a full-time, salaried position with a comprehensive benefits package (detail below), open to candidates anywhere in the United States.
The starting salary for this position is $183,013. We set compensation using market data and apply it consistently across the organization to ensure fairness and transparency for everyone in similar roles.
**Our Culture of Care**
We work hard to create a culture of care to ensure that our staff are best equipped to lead happy, healthy, and balanced lives. To that end, we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for you and qualifying family members;
- Retirement benefits with a 5% employer match;
- A flexible unlimited PTO plan;
- Generous paid parental leave;
- Pre-tax commuter benefits;
- A company laptop;
- A flexible remote work environment;
- A home office setup stipend for all new employees;
- Monthly reimbursement for remote work expenses;
- A yearly professional development fund;
- Mental health and wellness benefits through Calm and Better Help;
- Yearly in-person staff retreats; and
- A welcoming culture that celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
At Murmuration, we believe a vibrant, representative democracy depends on the inclusion of diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives. The best ideas don’t come from a single person or ideology — they emerge at the intersection of different backgrounds, identities, and viewpoints. We are proud of our commitment to building an organization and culture shaped by respect, empathy, and collaboration, where our team’s diversity fuels innovation, civic engagement, and meaningful change. We welcome new colleagues who will help us nurture this collective effort. Join us.
**An Equal-Opportunity Employer with a Commitment to Diversity**
Murmuration is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and as an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, we consider applicants equally of race, gender, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, disability, political affiliation and national origin. We reasonably accommodate staff members and/or applicants with disabilities, provided they are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job.
Note: Murmuration is two organizations working together to pursue our mission of amplifying the power of civic engagement: Murmuration Research Institute, a 501(c)(3) that conducts research to identify, design, and create the data, tools, and insights that build healthier and more equitable communities; and Murmuration, Inc., a 501(c)(4) that supports organizations working across the country on the nation’s most challenging issues with access to data, tools, and research that build healthier and more equitable communities.