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Senior Data Scientist

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-01

Core

Build machine learning models to anticipate vehicle failures, score issue severity, and generate prioritized alerts for commercial fleet maintenance teams.

Role type

Senior individual-contributor machine learning engineer

Builds

Production ML models for failure prediction and vehicle health scoring

Domain

Automotive fleet management and predictive maintenance

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, gradient-boosted trees (XGBoost, LightGBM), PyTorch, TensorFlow, time-series modeling, anomaly detection, model explainability (SHAP), cloud containerization

Preferred skills

Sensor/IoT/telematics data experience, failure prediction/reliability domain knowledge, ML infrastructure build experience, AI-assisted development tools

Technologies

Azure, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, LightGBM, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn

Responsibilities

Design, train, and validate ML models on fleet diagnostic and telematics data; own models from exploration through production including monitoring and retraining; engineer features from large, messy operational datasets; define optimization tradeoffs and instrument models for drift detection; explain model decisions to non-technical stakeholders; partner with engineering and product to integrate modeling capabilities into product features.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on individual contributor

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