Applied Scientist II, SCOT OSS - Sourcing Execution & Performance

About the role

The Applied Scientist II, in partnership with the Product Management and Tech teams, will lead efforts in enabling collaborative inventory planning with vendors through agent to agent collaboration or humans-in-the-loop collaborative methods, leveraging and developing agentic GenAI workflows to automate the end-to-end vendor coaching and evaluation, driving the full development cycle from whiteboarding new algorithmic approaches to production-scale deployments, collaborating with SDEs to build high-performance, distributed training and inference pipelines, translating complex scientific concepts into scalable, production-grade code, and ensuring vendor compliance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, science, and engineering teams to design and implement complex Science solutions for Sourcing Execution & Performance systems
• Identify science and innovation opportunities to improve outcomes across Inbound, and guide the science direction to solve ambiguous business problems
• Build prototypes and core production algorithms, and work with talented engineering teams to scale them
• Drive technical standards and best practices for the team's Science solutions
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members on complex projects

Requirements

• 3+ years of building models for business applications experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

Skills

Deep understanding about machine learning/reinforcement learning/GenAI models, enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes, and implementing long term solutions. Can translate complex business logic into scalable models and communicate insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

A full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage, Maternity and Parental Leave Options, Paid Time Off (PTO), 401(k) Plan, and more. For more information, visit here.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually.

Schedule

Not specified.