CSC Generation

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Causal & Decision Systems

CSC Generation Austin, Texas, United States

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals · 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 15
Remote machine-learning Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time United States
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About the role

You will build closed-loop decision systems that estimate causal responses, quantify uncertainty, and automate commercial decisions. The role involves developing infrastructure for experimentation, policy learning, and production ML deployment to drive measurable economic lift.

What they look for

Machine learning Statistical modeling Causal inference Experimentation Recommendation systems Pricing Bandits Reinforcement learning Optimization Active learning Uncertainty estimation Counterfactual evaluation Python SQL Large behavioral datasets

Requirements

Strong candidates should have extensive experience in machine learning, statistical modeling, and causal inference. Proficiency in Python, SQL, and decision-making systems like bandits or reinforcement learning is highly valued.

Full description

CSC Generation is building closed-loop decision systems that use machine learning to operate consumer businesses more intelligently.

We are starting with pricing and expanding into areas such as inventory, purchasing, promotions, marketing, and assortment.

The Role

You will help build systems that:

**estimate causal response + quantify uncertainty → choose actions → generate useful information → observe outcomes → update policies → evaluate challengers → deploy within guardrails**

We want to answer questions such as:

- What happens **because we change a price**, rather than simply what happens next? - How should uncertainty affect a decision? - When should the system exploit what it knows versus experiment to learn? - Can we estimate the value of a challenger policy before fully deploying it? - How do we optimize economic outcomes while respecting inventory, margin, vendor, customer, and operational constraints?

What You’ll Work On

Depending on your background, you may work across:

- causal and heterogeneous treatment-effect modeling; - uncertainty estimation and calibration; - contextual bandits, active learning, or sequential decision-making; - policy learning and constrained optimization; - counterfactual and off-policy evaluation; - experimentation and champion/challenger systems; - production ML infrastructure, monitoring, and automated deployment.

We care about selecting the right method, not using a particular framework.

What Success Looks Like

Success is not a better offline metric.

The systems you build should produce measurable economic lift in controlled experiments, generalize across businesses, learn from their own interventions, and safely automate an increasing share of real commercial decisions.

Over time, the goal is simple:

**the system should become better at operating the business because it has operated the business.**

What We’re Looking For

We care more about exceptional technical ability and judgment than matching a checklist.

Strong candidates will have experience in several of:

- machine learning and statistical modeling; - causal inference and experimentation; - recommendation, advertising, pricing, marketplace, credit, or other decision systems; - bandits, reinforcement learning, optimization, or active learning; - uncertainty estimation; - counterfactual evaluation; - production ML systems; - Python, SQL, and large behavioral datasets.

Why This Role Is Different

Most ML systems learn from a dataset.

Here, **the decisions made by the model influence the data the model sees next**.

That creates a continuous loop:

**Decision → intervention → outcome → learning → better decision**

The long-term opportunity is to build that capability once and apply it across a portfolio of businesses and increasingly broad commercial decisions.

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