Senior Scientist

Job Description

This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of an office location [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford or Mountain View], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

The Role

The Applied Analytics & Insights – Internal Business Functions team is focused on execution-based analytics to help GM achieve better business outcomes through contextualized solutions with targeted actions. The individual will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of various experience levels that frame opportunities, wrangle the necessary data and create end-to-end analytical pipelines, develop user interfaces for analytical insights, and build POC and production models in support of better business decisions. The team is responsible for both advanced analytics strategy and applied, project-based solutions, focusing on the company’s most critical business areas.

What You’ll Do

• Work as a member of a cross-functional team to propose and implement high-impact data driven analytic solutions that address challenges across internal business functions
• Apply Data Science and Modeling techniques to drive data driven decision making and solve complex problems:
  • Build predictive/prescriptive models and machine-learning algorithms
  • Analyze large amounts of diverse information to discover trends and patterns
  • Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
  • Monitor and sustain model effectiveness
  • Present complex information using data visualization techniques
• Work with diverse technical teams to provide analytical dataset pipelines and user interfaces to ensure project deliverables fulfill business needs and timing
• Create technical documents for models and processes
• Present complex information using data visualization techniques and data storytelling
• Create repeatable and scalable code and processes for improving development/execution efficiency.

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in Data Science, Analytics, Operations Research, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or another quantitative field
• Minimum five years of experience as a Data Scientist developing, deploying, and monitoring performance of large analytic data sets and machine learning based models
• Proficient writing code using Python or R and developing SQL queries, running models in Spark, working with big data tools like Hadoop, IBM Elastic Storage System, or equivalent, and visualizing data using Power BI or Tableau or other
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying models using MLops framework utilizing Databricks /Azure services ( Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Power BI) or AWS tools (SageMaker, Glue, EMR) or GCP (Dataflow, Big Query, Cloud Run)
• Capable of working with diverse technical teams to produce analytical dataset pipelines and user interfaces
• Text analytics and NLP (natural language processing) experience in a corporate setting is a plus.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects at once without sacrificing quality
• Strong listening and communications skills
• Highly collaborative work style
• Ability to evaluate the big picture and provide meaningful business insights and actions

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance. 

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more. 

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

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