Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Location: Remote with required travel to Plano, TX *1X Per quarter - 4x per year*

Duration: 12 month contract with extensions/permanent placement possible (W2)

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong coding skills in Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) and SQL.
• Experience with regression, elasticity estimation, clustering, and experimental validation.
• Comfort working with optimization outputs and constraints.
• Ability to wrangle data from cloud-based sources and iterate quickly with stakeholders.
• Ability to speak directly with stakeholders to bring in complex questions, work with existing models, and be able to begin exploratory analysis

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Logistics simulation experience, API-driven optimization tools, and basic MLOps hygiene.

Job Description

A retail client is hiring Applied Data Scientists to join their Profit to Serve (PTS) initiative—a priority program driving scenario modeling and last-mile routing optimization to improve profitability and service. PTS is a foundational enabler in our AI strategy, connecting precision costing with automated insights and routing simulations.

***This group is a financially focused group, looking at cost impacts for logistics and routing. This individual will have to be able to look at things from a cost perspective, and the goal is to improve the existing models to overall improve the accuracy of financial decisions.***