Senior Data Scientist – Supply Chain

🕒 October 14

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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💵 $100k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

Where this job comes from

Posted on US Foods's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship October 14

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US Foods

10,000+ employees

📦 Logistics

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🛍️ eCommerce

Logistics • Food & Beverage • eCommerce

US Foods is one of the largest food service distributors in the United States, offering a wide range of products, culinary equipment, and support services for food businesses. They focus on product innovation, sustainability, and customer partnership, providing tools and resources to help clients enhance their operations and meet diverse dietary preferences. With a commitment to quality, safety, and community engagement, US Foods aims to positively impact both customers and the environment.

📋 Description

• Lead forward-looking analytics initiatives across time series forecasting, supply chain demand, buying, and inventory optimization • Develop and productionalize customized forecasting and optimization models • Improve demand accuracy, inform buying decisions, right-size inventory, and enhance supply chain replenishment • Research data sources, cleanse data, engineer features, and create baseline models • Independently formulate and develop forecasting, optimization, and machine learning models across multiple projects • Design, implement, and refine advanced ML and deep learning models for supply chain problems • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and present data science solutions iteratively • Own model development from inception through implementation, including ML pipelines, documentation, model drift, and remodeling strategy • Mentor Associate Data Scientists and Data Scientists • Coordinate with the ML team on deployment issues, resource requirements, model deployment, and retraining • Take or delegate ownership of critical stakeholder tickets and issues • Navigate codebases for troubleshooting, debugging, and code improvement • Contribute to coding standards and enforce sound coding practices • Create and maintain documentation for ML models, data sources, and methodologies • Assist with feasibility documents • Participate in R&D and recommend or implement process improvements and methodologies • Share knowledge through internal team presentations and workshops • Guide Scrum, Kanban, and other development methodologies in group projects

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in data science/mathematics/CS/statistics or similar field and 3+ years of experience OR Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in data science • Effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills • Expert-level understanding of classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, association rule learning, bagging, boosting, neural networks, deep learning, model evaluation and metrics, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, optimization algorithms, and NLP • Working knowledge of Agile/SCRUM methodologies with 1-2 years of experience • Intellectual curiosity to investigate the latest developments in the field, including LLM/Generative AI models • Ability to anticipate deployment limitations, data latency, algorithm appropriateness, and mathematical details/assumptions • At least 1+ years of working with a major cloud platform, creating ML models from data exploration to deployment • Working knowledge of handling large datasets in a cloud environment • Working knowledge of APIs and CI/CD • Understanding of DevOps and MLOps principles • 1+ years of writing production-grade code in Bash, Python, and SQL • Ability to navigate a data lake environment while creating training datasets or feature stores • Skills in creating, deploying, and troubleshooting containers for ML modeling • 1+ years of experience with version control systems/concepts such as Git • Ability to investigate/research ML frameworks, algorithms, datasets, and feature stores • Capability to provide macro-level thought leadership to junior Data Scientists • Preferred: 2 years of supply chain analytics experience • Preferred: 1+ year of Optimization & Operations Research experience with production-grade optimization modeling languages such as Gurobi, Pyomo, or PuLP

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive plan bonus program • Health insurance • Pre-tax spending accounts • Retirement benefits • Paid time off • Short-term and long-term disability • Employee stock purchase plan • Life insurance

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