Data Scientist (ML + LLM Systems)

About the Position

Intempt runs 9 AI agents that make real decisions for marketers every day - segmenting audiences, scoring leads, predicting churn, optimizing journeys, generating content. Not demos. Production. Real customer data. Real consequences.

The brain behind Intempt's agents is a 3-stage LLM pipeline (Think, Plan, Execute) with 63+ tool-calling functions, streaming responses, and a plan-gate that asks users before side effects. Underneath that lives classical ML - Flink streaming pipelines for RFM scoring, likelihood regression, and next-best-action models running on 350M+ events/month. Plus a 17-algorithm recommendation engine backed by Neo4j graph algorithms and CLIP/SentenceTransformer embeddings.

You'll work across all of it. One day you're optimizing the Opus-to-Haiku routing logic to cut cost per turn. The next you're tuning the Flink scoring pipeline that feeds signals into the agents. If you've only fine-tuned models on clean HuggingFace datasets or only done prompt engineering, this will stretch you. We need someone who thinks in both worlds.

Responsibilities

• Agent LLM orchestration: model routing across Opus/Sonnet/Haiku, tool-calling patterns, context management, cost-per-turn optimization, streaming pipeline tuning
• Classical ML models: RFM/FA scoring (Jenks natural breaks), likelihood regression, churn prediction, next-best-action - all on Flink
• The recommendation engine: 17 algorithms spanning cart-based, popularity, affinity, and similarity approaches, running on Neo4j
• Embedding pipelines: CLIP (512-dim) for image/text similarity, SentenceTransformer for knowledge and snippet vectorization
• Eval frameworks: for non-deterministic agent outputs - you define what 'good' looks like when the answer changes every time
• A/B testing and causal inference: to prove models move revenue, not just improve AUC
• Model cost tracking: every inference has a dollar cost. You own the margin.

Requirements

• 3+ years building production ML systems - deployed models serving real users, not research papers
• Hands-on with LLM application development - you've built tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines, or multi-model orchestration
• Strong in Python, comfortable reading Java - platform services are JVM, ML layer is Python
• Experienced with streaming data and real-time feature engineering (Flink, Kafka, or similar)
• Familiar with graph-based ML and recommendation systems - bonus if you've worked with Neo4j
• Someone who obsesses over cost-per-inference as much as accuracy - running Opus on every turn isn't an option
• Able to explain a model's decision to a marketer who's never heard of a confusion matrix

Tech Stack

• Python
• Java 21
• Apache Flink
• Kafka
• ClickHouse
• Neo4j
• PostgreSQL
• CLIP / SentenceTransformer
• Deepgram Nova-3
• fal.ai / Kling v3
• PyTorch
• scikit-learn

Not a Fit If

• You've only done prompt engineering or only done classical ML - we need both in one person
• You think shipping a Jupyter notebook to production is acceptable
• You can't reason about inference cost alongside model quality

We Offer

• Core Platform
• Remote work
• Full-time position

To apply, email us your resume.