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Data Scientist I

Chewy


Job Location:

Boston, NH - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 97500 - 160000
Posted: 21 August 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Our opportunity

We are hiring a DataScientist Ifor our Trust and Safety team. You will help us detect and reduce harmful behavior on the platformfocusing on detecting fraudulent or abusive activities.Partner with Product Engineering Operations and Business stakeholdersto turn data into modelsdashboards and clear recommendations that protect customers and the company.

In this role you will move work through the full data science path: framing the problem pulling and checking data building features and models measuring performance in realistic terms and explaining what we learned and what we should do next.

Responsibilities

Gather prioritize and prepare data from multiple sources with attention to quality definitions and limitationsto deliver scalable data-driven solutions that improve customer trust operational efficiency and business outcomes.

Run exploratory analysis with statistics and visuals to find patterns segments and signals relevant to risk and policy decisions.

Engineer and select features (create transform validate) to improve model quality and stability over time.

Use statistical methods (for example descriptive stats comparisons and hypothesis-style checks where appropriate) to describe distributions relationships and uncertainty.

Choose and implement machine learning approaches suited to the problem (for example classification ranking clustering) given data volume and constraints.

Evaluate models with metrics that match the business goal (forexampleprecision/recall tradeoffs calibration segment performance) anditerate on the model and data pipeline.

Interpret outputs surface key drivers and caveats and present results so both technical and non-technical partners can act on them.

Build clear charts and narratives for reviews documentation and operational readouts.

Partner with product engineeringandoperations to turn questions into scoped analyses and shipped solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in data science Statistics Computer Science or a closely related field.

1 years of experience in a data science or equivalent analytics role with examples of end-to-end work.

Strong programming in Python including data manipulationand MLlibraries.

Solid SQL and experience working with relational or warehouse-style data.

Grounding in statistics and machine learning; comfort explaining model behavior and limitationswith a specific focus on rare event detection and handling highly imbalanced datasets.

Strong written and verbal communication; able to simplify technical work without hiding important tradeoffs.

Nice to have

Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS Azure GCP) or Snowflake.

Familiarity with AWS data and ML services (for example Glue SageMaker Athena Redshift).

Experience with visualization or lightweight apps (for example Tableau Streamlit) or analyst workflows that include structured querying.

Background in retail e-commercepaymentsfraud and risk domains.

The base salary range for this role is $97500 - $160000.00.
  • The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidates relevant experience education and work addition this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08 positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits such as medical/Rx vision dental life disability hospital indemnity critical illness and accident. We offer parental leave family services benefits backup dependent care flexible spending accounts telemedicine pet adoption reimbursement employee assistance program and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at .

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry national origin gender citizenship marital status religion age disability gender identity results of genetic testing veteran status as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements or if you need a religious accommodation please contact .

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