Senior Data Scientist

We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to help build the intelligence layer powering the future of board recruitment. At Boardway, we’re creating specialized AI and search technology for board and advisory recruitment. Finding the right board member requires much more than matching skills to a job description. Leadership experience, industry expertise, board composition, strategic fit, and long-term company needs all influence the outcome. Generic recruiting software wasn’t built for these challenges. You’ll help define how candidates are evaluated, ranked, matched, and recommended across the platform. As an early member of the team, you’ll have significant influence on the product, algorithms, and business logic that power our decision-making systems.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and improve matching, ranking, scoring, and recommendation systems
• Develop methodologies for evaluating candidate-company fit
• Apply AI and LLMs to automate research, enrichment, and decision-support workflows
• Analyze candidate, company, and market data to improve matching quality and platform outcomes
• Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to measure performance and relevance
• Build prototypes and rapidly validate new ideas through experimentation
• Work closely with product and engineering teams to turn business problems into intelligent systems

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 5+ years of experience working on data-driven products, AI applications, recommendation systems, or decision-support systems
• Strong Python skills and experience working with structured and unstructured data
• Hands-on experience applying LLMs and modern AI techniques to real-world business problems
• Experience designing scoring models, ranking systems, matching algorithms, or recommendation engines
• Strong analytical thinking and a research-oriented mindset
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into measurable solutions
• Comfortable working independently and owning projects from concept to implementation

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with recruitment, talent intelligence, marketplace, or search products
• Experience with bias detection, fairness evaluation, and ranking optimization
• Experience fine-tuning models or building evaluation pipelines
• Experience working with graph-based data, recommendation systems, or knowledge retrieval

OUR STACK

Python · PostgreSQL · Vector Search · RAG · TypeScript · Node.js

WHY BOARDWAY?

We’re a small team building AI-native infrastructure for board recruitment. You’ll work directly with founders, own meaningful problems, and help define the algorithms and intelligence that power the platform. If you enjoy applying AI to complex decision-making problems, experimenting with new approaches, and having an outsized impact on what gets built, we’d love to talk.