Job Title: Data Scientist (US CITIZEN OR GC ONLY)
Location: Onsite in Austin, TX
Type: W2 contract, 4 months, very likely extension to at least 1 year
Pay: $64-$74.40/hour
Summary:
The Data Scientist applies statistics, machine learning, optimization, and programming to manufacturing data to improve safety, quality, throughput, cost, equipment reliability, and decision-making across plants. The role partners closely with Manufacturing IT, plant operations, engineering, quality, maintenance, and data engineering teams.
Main Responsibilities:
- Build reliable analytical datasets and pipelines using SQL, Python, Spark, and Databricks.
- Build AI application from ground up; impacting all of client’s Manufacturing
- Perform exploratory analysis, statistical studies, root-cause analysis, forecasting, optimization, and experimentation.
- Develop, validate, document, and monitor predictive or prescriptive models for use cases such as downtime, scrap, defects, bottlenecks, anomaly detection, yield, and preventive maintenance.
- Evaluate data quality, lineage, coverage, missingness, bias, and operational readiness before modeling.
- Convert findings into practical recommendations that plant personnel and leaders can use in daily decisions
Required Skills and Education:
- 8-10 years of experience
- Data modeling
- Data pipeline
- Data analytics – able to build something out of messy data
- Bachelor’s Degree required
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