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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

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