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Cinder is seeking our first dedicated Data Scientist to help us unlock insights, drive product direction, and scale our impact. This role will align closely with our full stack and data platform engineers and will require fluent communication with our customer success team and our customers directly. The founding data scientist will play a critical role in unlocking industry-wide improvements in internet safety.

The founding data scientist at Cinder will be expected to think strategically while owning end-to-end data insights for our customers and internal teams. A self-starter and flexible mindset is imperative for success in this role.

What you’ll do :

Design and own metrics end-to-end for quality, speed, and efficiency of content review across AI, human, and hybrid workflows.

Draw insights and design ideal automation structures that unlock Cinder’s value for our customers.

Guide the foundation of our high-scale, event-driven platform by working closely with our data platform engineering team.

Develop QA strategy to monitor and improve the accuracy of human and model reviews.

Show our customers what’s working and predict what’s on the horizon : partner with the Customer Success team to advise on strategies to keep users safe.

Roll up your sleeves and contribute to our data platform stack.

Research, gather product analytics, and suggest product features to improve analytics through experimentation or testing.

Present and communicate closely with customers to tell incredibly compelling stories with data.

About you :

5+ years of experience in a data science role

Experience at a high-growth startup

This is a foundational role. You must thrive in ambiguity, take initiative, and enjoy working across the stack—from data exploration to productionizing models and dashboards.

Ability to talk and think through, in detail, the architecture of a data platform — you’ll be a consumer of, and a contributor to, our next generation event-driven data platform at Cinder.

Curious, resourceful, and action-oriented—you don’t wait for someone to tell you what to do

Some nice to haves :

2+ years in a client-facing role—experience working with customers is a big plus

Experience building 0 to 1 products and bringing them to market

Experience working for a social media, marketplace, or media company with knowledge of how attackers can abuse these systems

About Cinder

Cinder is a cutting-edge platform to protect the internet. Trust & Safety and AI safety teams at the world’s most influential companies need powerful solutions that allow them to innovate and adapt as quickly as the threats they face. Companies rely on Cinder to make policies, moderate, enforce, investigate, and disrupt threats like hate groups and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns. We’re building the world’s most advanced internet safety platform and solving challenges at incredible scale. Everyone at Cinder has impact from day one, and everyone that joins is a step change in our velocity as a company.

We believe in the value of frequent in-person meet-ups and learning face to face, so we encourage teammates in SF / NYC / London to work together when possible, and we have at least two all-company events per year. In the US, we offer health, vision & dental benefits, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.