Staff Data Scientist - AI Engineering & Productivity

Descripción

The Role

The AI Engineering and Productivity team in the Global Planning, Design, and Product IT organization is looking for a Staff Data Scientist to propel our mission of empowering Engineering teams by delivering reliable and secure AI-driven tools that streamline workflows, accelerate decision making, surface actionable insights, and unlock measurable productivity gains across the product lifecycle.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be responsible for leading one or more AI/ML and data science products, while also contributing highly technical work on problems of significant complexity. You will be accountable for translating ambiguous Engineering business challenges into scalable, production-grade AI products that deliver measurable enterprise impact.

What You’ll Do

• Shape scientific direction, and ensure methodological quality and operational robustness used across the suite of products that you are responsible for.
• Grow the technical capabilities of the scientist community within the AI Engineering and Productivity organization through exploration of new methods and technologies, cross-functional knowledge sharing, mentorship, internal reviews, and establishment of reusable methods and frameworks.
• Drive results on time and within budget, managing risks, and ensuring methodological and operational quality across products that you oversee to generate significant and measurable business impact.
• Work cross-functionally across data engineering, delivery teams, software delivery, other business units and beyond to drive product development, management and results; and
• Influence stakeholders and leaders by translating technical tradeoffs, risks and opportunities into clear business decisions.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 8+ years working with and 3+ years leading advanced analytics , AI/ML and/or operations research initiatives .
• Demonstrated thought leadership surrounding use of innovative methodologies and approaches to solving business problems.
• Deep expertise across multiple AI/ML and analytics domains ( LLMs, forecasting, deep learning, operations research, prescriptive & predictive methods , etc.), with a preferred focus on LLMs.
• Expertise in Python and other cloud-based data science platforms ( Databricks preferred), and proficiency in SQL ;
• Experience with generative AI tools and platforms such as Cursor, GitHub and/or Microsoft Copilot , Glean, Databricks Genie , etc.
• Demonstrated ability to frame ambiguous high-value business problems into tractable analytical strategies and measurable outcomes;
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• M.S. degree in operations research, engineering, computer science, applied statistics, physics, or related field. Equivalent additional experience may substitute for an advanced degree. 

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• 10+ years working with and 6+ years leading advanced analytics, AI/ML and/or operations research initiatives.
• Ph.D. in operations research, engineering, computer science, applied statistics, physics, or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-team member initiatives using novel methods resulting in substantial business impact.
• Publications, conference talks, patents or other generated intellectual property, committed open-source work, or other external technical recognition preferred.

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