<p><strong>Senior Data Scientist</strong></p><p>Hybrid | Austin, TX | Contract</p><p><br></p><p>Robert Half is partnering with an Austin-based client to hire a Senior Data Scientist for a long-term contract. Applicants must have a PhD in Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead the design, execution, and interpretation of A/B tests and quasi-experiments to evaluate user migration initiatives, growth marketing efforts, and campaign effectiveness.</li><li>Partner closely with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and marketing to embed experimentation into product development and iteration cycles.</li><li>Serve as a subject-matter expert on experimentation best practices, including hypothesis formulation, metric selection, experimental design, and results interpretation.</li><li>Apply advanced causal inference techniques when randomized experiments are not feasible, or to inform prioritization and design.</li><li>Contribute to the development and scaling of centralized experimentation frameworks, tools, and documentation across the organization.</li><li>Independently extract, transform, and analyze data from complex, large-scale systems using SQL, Python, and related analytics tools.</li><li>Communicate insights and experimental results clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive informed business decisions.</li><li>Stay current on emerging methodologies in experimentation, causal analysis, and applied statistics, and bring new ideas into practice.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Site Reliability Engineer</strong></p><p>On-site | Austin, TX | Contract-to-Hire</p><p><br></p><p>Robert Half is partnering with an Austin-based client to hire a Site Reliability Engineer. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with a rapidly growing team, ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems. The ideal candidate will bring technical expertise in Azure infrastructure and scripting languages, along with a proactive approach to automation and problem-solving.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Monitor, maintain, and optimize Azure infrastructure to ensure high performance, availability, and reliability across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.</li><li>Define, measure, and continuously improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and API Management.</li><li>Design and develop automation tools and scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and C# to eliminate manual processes and improve operational efficiency.</li><li>Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, leading incident response efforts, performing root cause analysis, and implementing long-term preventive and reliability improvements.</li><li>Partner closely with software engineering, QA, and other technology teams to ensure systems meet reliability, scalability, and performance standards.</li><li>Support capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning initiatives within a microservices architecture built on .NET and React.</li><li>Troubleshoot complex system issues, including integrations with third-party platforms and APIs.</li><li>Create, maintain, and enhance technical documentation, operational runbooks, and system diagrams to support knowledge sharing and operational excellence.</li></ul>