Senior Data Scientist - Fleet Analytics

Role Description

At Hertz, we are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build the best damage management technologies in the transportation industry. We want the brightest AI & ML minds to join our Damage Science Team to help us develop and/or maintain capabilities. Examples of projects the team work on include:

• Rationalize Repair Estimates and Invoices with Large Language Models (LLMs): Implement sophisticated LLMs to make intelligent repair routing decisions, ensuring repairs are conducted efficiently and cost-effectively.
• Forecast Repair Needs: Develop models to predict future repair & maintenance needs based on historical data and trends.
• Optimize Decision Making: Create models to determine if we should keep/sell/salvage a vehicle.
• Demand Planning: Forecast customer demand at a given location at a given time.

What You Will Do:

• Formulate the strategic and tactical steps to carry out the model development lifecycle end-to-end (i.e. problem statement definition, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development / tuning, and model implementation).
• Build and maintain descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models to measure the performance of the new products and services.
• Define and implement best practices to generate accurate analytics, reports, visualizations, and dashboards to explain results simply and succinctly to technical, non-technical, and senior management.
• Build partnerships and work cross-functionally to identify use cases and opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and drive business value through positive impact on OKRs.
• Work with an owner mentality to drive business impact even if that means supporting pipeline creation or decision support analytics.

Qualifications

• 5 years hands-on experience in a data scientist role.
• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python).
• 3+ years of end-to-end machine learning model development experience (e.g. problem statement definition, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development / tuning, and deployment).
• Demonstrated experience using machine learning to drive a business impact.
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with car rental or technology company.
• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, physics or engineering.

Benefits

• Up to 40% off any standard Hertz Rental.
• Paid Time Off.
• Medical, Dental & Vision plan options.
• Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching.
• Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance.
• Employee Assistance Program for employees & family.
• Educational Reimbursement & Discounts.
• Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness.
• Perks & Discounts – Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more.

Company Description

The Hertz Corporation operates the Hertz, Dollar Car Rental, Thrifty Car Rental brands in approximately 9,700 corporate and franchisee locations throughout North America, Europe, The Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The Hertz Corporation is one of the largest worldwide airport general use vehicle rental companies, and the Hertz brand is one of the most recognized in the world.