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Data Scientist

Koah

Company websitekoahlabs.com (Koah, opens in new tab)

Base salary $180K  to $250K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceHybrid
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (3 h ago) · observed since

About this job

Who We Are

Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native products. Our mission is to help publishers monetize and help advertisers reach the right audience — without compromising speed, UX, or privacy.

We’re a small, tight-knit team in San Francisco with backgrounds at X, Apple, Meta, and early-stage startups. We’ve raised from top investors and are growing fast with real traction on both the publisher and advertiser sides.

Working at Koah means joining at the ground floor: you’ll ship code that shapes the company and the ecosystem we’re building. We move quickly, operate with high trust, and care deeply about craft.

Our Stack

  • Infra: Terraform, AWS, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), Tailscale, Cloudflare

  • Data: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, Python

  • Core Application: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript

  • SDKs: iOS, Android, Web, Flutter, React Native

In this role, you will

  • Sit within product engineering and help drive product decisions using data and causal reasoning

  • Design, implement, execute experiments and analyze results

  • Help level-up all of engineering, encouraging data driven decisions and a deep understanding of the important metrics that drive our business forward

  • Use rigorous statistical thinking and hands-on modeling to turn our rich marketplace data into tools that directly shape product decisions and key insights

You might be a fit if

  • You have an advanced degree in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field

  • You enjoy identifying and owning challenging problems, forming testable hypotheses, and conducting impactful research to drive significant business impact

  • You have a relentless focus on continuous learning and making an impact with an ability to question the status quo

  • You have strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills

  • You enjoy communicating conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences alike

Source: Koah on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($180,000) is above 40% of the 1,469 Data & ML roles in California listed on this site; 55 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $190,000; the middle half runs from $160,000 to $229,900.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 5 other live Koah roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 5 other live Koah roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Data Scientist (this listing)$180K - $250K
Software Engineer - Product$180K - $250K
Software Engineer - Backend$180K - $250K
Software Engineer - Platform$180K - $250K
Applied Scientist$200K - $300K
Software Engineer, Early Career$120K - $160K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Koah roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

  1. First observed on the employer's board
  2. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-01-22
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco • United States

USD 180,000 – 250,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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