Lead Data Scientist

Sequoia

Full-time Mathematical Science Occupations
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Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted
June 05, 2026

Job Description

What You Get to Do:


Technical & Architectural Leadership:

β€’ Define and own the ML and advanced analytics architecture supporting HR, benefits, and

payroll products.

β€’ Design end-to-end, production-grade ML systemsβ€”from data ingestion and feature

engineering to model serving, monitoring, and retraining.

β€’ Lead the selection and optimization of algorithms (tree-based models, deep learning, time-

series forecasting, GenAI) with tradeoffs across accuracy, latency, scalability, and cost.

β€’ Establish best practices for model governance, explainability, bias detection, and

compliance.


Advanced Modeling & Forecasting:


β€’ Drive the development and validation of time-series and forecasting models

(ARIMA/SARIMA, Prophet, state-space models, LSTM/transformers) for workforce planning,

attrition, and financial forecasting.

β€’ Champion advanced experimentation, model eva...