Senior Data Scientist - PhD

A large manufacturing company is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop their analytics strategy: encompassing the acquisition, processing of service data and application to preventive maintenance and control of their vehicles. This person will be responsible for end-to-end model deployment and require an expertise in math, statistics and building ML models.

Location: Williamsport, MD

Salary: Up to 160k base + bonus

Visa sponsorship is NOT AVAILABLE

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business experts and external partners to acquire business understanding needed to conduct analysis
• Automate collection processes and identify valuable data sources
• Carry out preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
• Discover trends and patterns by analyzing large amounts of information
• Build ML algorithms and predictive models
• Present information using data visualization techniques
• Introduce solutions and strategies for business value generation
• Collaborate with operations, sales, engineering, supply chain, finance, product development, etc

Requirements:

• PhD in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Information Management, Engineering or related
• 5+ years’ experience as a data scientist
• Modeling, database design and management for structured and unstructured data (SQL Server, Netezza, IBM DB2, HDFS, Spark)
• Experience with computer vision or classification models
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to sell use cases and research results.
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra) and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (SPSS, SAS, etc.).
• Knowledge of and experience with data mining, segmentation, ML and optimization techniques (SPSS, R, CPLEX, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience with data visualization and reporting packages (Cognos, PowerBI, etc.), databases (SQL, etc.), programming (Python, Scala, etc.)
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from leaders and peers.