Fundamental is seeking a Forward deployed Data Scientist to facilitate the adoption of NEXUS and collaborate with customers to address complex technical challenges.

The Data Scientist is an integral part of our FDE team, which is dedicated to driving the successful deployment of Fundamental products and proving value over legacy baselines or net new use cases. They work hand-in-hand with customers from the Proof of Value stage to post-implementation, ensuring our solutions run securely in the client's production heartbeat.

In this role, you’ll manage customer relations involving multiple stakeholders (IT, C-suite, and data science teams) and function as a key bridge, translating field insights into our product roadmap.

Key responsibilities

• You’ll individually help deploy into production use cases with considerable business impact, moving from "science experiments" to definitive ROI
• You’ll work on rigorous head-to-head benchmarking against client baselines (XGBoost, LightGBM), executing the work of data engineering, feature engineering, and validation
• You’ll work in collaboration with our research and product teams to translate operational pain points and data anomalies into essential inputs for the Fundamental roadmap
• You’ll be involved in technical strategy to identify the right business problems, prevent data leakage, and handle the "last mile" integration (VPC, on-prem, air-gapped)
• Your collaboration with the Sales and Solution Architect teams will help align diverse stakeholders and explain predictions to business users