Senior Data Scientist
Verizon · Basking Ridge, NJ · 2 wk ago
Engineering$101k–$194k/yrFull-time
About the role
As a Senior AI Scientist, you will drive profitable growth and business innovation by applying advanced machine learning techniques and cutting-edge AI technology.
Responsibilities
- Drive profitable growth and business innovation by applying advanced machine learning techniques and cutting-edge AI technology.
- Lead high-impact data science projects that revolutionize product personalization, marketing effectiveness, channel optimization, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
- Work closely with a team of data scientists, ML engineers, software developers, and business stakeholders to design, build, and deliver next-generation AI/ML solutions.
- Design and implement agentic AI solutions to elevate the customer experience, optimize offer personalization, and automate complex customer queries.
- Develop predictive models to forecast customer behavior and business events, translating complex technical outcomes into strategic insights for partners across marketing, customer experience, and engineering teams.
- Oversee the end-to-end development and operational lifecycle, diving into root causes to solve complex technical challenges.
- Step into discussions with key business leaders to align data science initiatives with broader business strategies and identify new growth opportunities.
- Partner with engineering teams to deploy models into production (both real-time pipelines and batch processing) and systematically track model performance.
- Drive technical excellence through active research and the practical application of emerging theories, tools, and technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
- Foundational knowledge in mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience developing and deploying AI agents end-to-end, with solid hands-on knowledge of LLMs, RAG, Google ADK, and LangGraph.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale data science or agentic framework projects from ideation through to production.
- Hands-on programming experience in Python and SQL.
- Experience with machine learning/deep learning algorithms, including Transformers, multi-agent frameworks, NLP, and expertise in using PyTorch and Scikit-Learn packages.
- Familiarity with Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and standard version control workflows.
- Experience with data platforms such as Spark, Hadoop, BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redis.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, or other cloud computing services.
Qualifications
- Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- Proven ability to leverage Hugging Face packages (such as CLIP) and apply the latest machine learning research from open-source repositories to real-world projects.
- Background in traditional software development practices, web services (React, Django), and containerization (Docker).
- Experience designing, optimizing, and scaling Recommendation and Ranking systems for telecom use cases.
- Experience aligning multimodal parsing systems (PDF/image text extraction) with business offer execution pipelines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal influencing skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities.
Skills
- Advanced knowledge of machine learning/deep learning algorithms.
- Experience with LLMs, RAG, Google ADK, and LangGraph.
- Ability to translate complex technical outcomes into strategic insights.
- Strong communication and interpersonal influencing skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities.
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
- Matched 401(k) savings plan.
- Up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance and tuition assistance.
- Other incentives.
Pay
$101,000.00 - $194,000.00
Schedule
This is a hybrid role with a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies. Scheduled Weekly Hours 40