Verified Job On Employer Career Site Job Summary: Celara is a distributed SaaS company that leverages AI for media monitoring and analysis. They are seeking a high-impact Data Scientist to enhance operations and client product delivery by merging advanced data science, LLMs, and product thinking. Responsibilities: • Build and deploy LLM-powered tools and workflows that simplify analyst work, reduce errors, and accelerate delivery. • Understand operational processes and create intelligent, scalable solutions that eliminate complexity and manual effort. • Partner with product and operations teams to infuse intelligence and automation into client-facing platforms. • Translate client pain points and product gaps into practical, data-driven AI solutions that enhance experience and outcomes. • Prototype fast, test early, iterate often. Maintain speed without sacrificing accuracy or quality. • Work closely with engineering, product, client success, and operations teams to bring ideas to life. Qualifications: Required: • 5+ years of hands-on experience as a data scientist or ML engineer, with demonstrated ownership of projects in production, and a minimum of 2 years’ experience with LLM’s. • Proven experience applying LLMs and generative AI to real-world business problems. • Strong Linux skills – comfortable navigating and scripting in a CLI-first environment. • Expert Python skills – you write clean, maintainable, tested, and efficient code. • Deep experience working with OpenAI models and APIs, including prompt engineering, finetuning and evaluation. • Fluent in SQL with ability to work efficiently with PostgreSQL datasets. • Experience using Docker for local and production development. • Proficiency with LangChain for building multi-step LLM workflows. • Effective remote communication and collaboration, especially in a distributed team with meetings on US Eastern Time. • Strong business acumen—able to connect technical solutions to operational and client value. • Startup-style drive, agility, and hands-on mindset—you ship, not just ideate. • Creativity and experimentation—willing to try, fail, and improve. • Exceptional communication skills—can explain complex ideas simply and persuasively. • Minimum 3–5 years of experience in AI/ML roles, preferably in B2B or SaaS environments. • Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, or related field. Preferred: • Experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, S3, etc.) • Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools. • Knowledge of media analytics, journalism, or influence measurement. • Prior work with data labeling, theme detection, or benchmarking model output. Company: Celara transforms your vision into reality by building elite near-shore technology teams with CTO-level expertise. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, US, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.