Ōura

StaffAIScientist

$350–550k ~AI est. San Francisco, California, United States Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Staff AI Scientist at Ōura. Skills: Personalization, Recommendation systems, LLM integration. Define personalization tech strategy. Set research and modeling agenda”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Causal reasoning; Counterfactual reasoning

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years of experience in applied machine learning or AI research, Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field, Hands-on experience across retrieval, ranking, and recommendation system design, Track record of shipping production systems in a robust experimentation framework, Comfort working closely with server and app engineers on model serving, pipeline architecture, and deployment infrastructure, Practical experience integrating recommendation or retrieval signals with LLM-powered generation

Nice to Have

PhD preferred

What You'll Do.

Define personalization tech strategy

Set research and modeling agenda

Identify where classical approaches are foundation

Identify where newer methods add value

Influence roadmap and technical direction

Own user representation and retrieval

Build and maintain user state representations

Design retrieval systems

Architect personalization serving interface

Define how personalization signals are passed

Develop grounding and constraints

Drive evaluation rigor

Design measurement frameworks

Build lightweight offline evals

Build shadow-mode testing infrastructure

Establish rubrics and tooling

Apply causal reasoning to understand what works

Own causal and counterfactual reasoning

Design and analyze experiments

Grow people around you

Provide technical mentorship

Help define what good looks like

Collaborate with engineering

Communicate trade-offs

and modeling assumptions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with engineering, science, product, and design; Communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communicate trade-offs; Communicate uncertainty; Communicate modeling assumptions

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