Lead Data Scientist

₹5M - ₹7M INR • 0.10% - 0.50% • Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN / Remote (Bengaluru, KA, IN; Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN) Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Data science Experience 6+ years Visa US citizen/visa only Skills Python, Machine Learning, Data Modeling, AI Agents

About the role

We are looking for an engineer with 4+ years of experience in traditional data science and recent experience in building applications with LLMs. Total 6+ years of work-experience. DrDroid is an enterprise grade AI Ops platform that builds its own correlation engine / knowledge graph and has reinforcement learning implemented into the agents in the platform. We are looking for a senior data scientist who has experience of implementing traditional data science & ML techniques in tandem with Agentic Applications. If you’re someone who’s implemented random forest, decision trees, numerical optimisations and other similar methodologies, you might be a right fit.

About the interview

1. Resume and past work screening (< 3-5 days)
2. Initial call with Founder - Only for shortlisted candidates
3. Remote assignment (2-4 hours)
4. Work trial (2 weeks paid collaboration)
5. Offer

About DrDroid

What we do

DrDroid is building AI Agents for Platform & Infrastructure teams. We help engineering teams fix issues faster and reduce escalations during on-call—automating triage, debugging, and remediation. We’re also the team behind several open-source projects: 🔹 Playbooks – A runbook automation platform 🔹 Kenobi – An event analytics platform for debugging data pipelines Join us in redefining how teams run operations in the post-GPT world.

Vision

Think if anyone in the team can debug an average production issue without requiring to involve a senior engineer (or a team of engineers?). Wouldn't that be wonderful? That's what we are working towards.

Funding

To work towards our vision, we couldn’t have been more grateful for having some amazing investors. We are lucky enough to be supported by Accel and we were part of Y-Combinator’s W23 batch.

Company Info

DrDroid Founded: 2022 Batch: W23 Team Size: 8 Status: Active Location: Bengaluru, India Founders: Siddarth Jain (Founder), Dipesh Mittal (Founder)

Location Information

• Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
• Remote work mentioned (Remote available in Bengaluru location)

Employment Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 6+ years total experience required
• Specifically 4+ years in traditional data science plus recent experience with LLM applications

Skills Mentioned

• Python
• Machine Learning
• Data Modeling
• AI Agents
• Traditional data science techniques including random forest, decision trees, numerical optimisations
• Experience building applications with LLMs (Large Language Models)

Salary Information

₹5M - ₹7M INR with equity 0.10% - 0.50%

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