Senior Data Scientist

🕒 6 days ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $165k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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BNSF Railway

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

📦 Logistics

Transport • Logistics

BNSF Railway is a major freight railroad company that provides transportation services across North America. The company emphasizes inclusion, safety, and customer-focused service, and operates a broad range of rail-related functions (train crews, field operations, mechanical and electrical, track/structures/signals, dispatch, and police). BNSF also recruits across many job categories and offers benefits for health, retirement, and development for hourly and salaried employees.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional collaboration to identify and define analytic initiatives, formulate strategies, and develop solutions to achieve business goals through effective use of data machine learning models. • Apply data science skills to analyze large, complex datasets and identify meaningful patterns that lead to actionable insights and data-driven solutions to business problems. • Lead the development and deployment of advanced machine learning models to forecast outcomes and optimize workflows. • Engage closely with stakeholders to grasp their requirements and deliver actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making. • Design and present compelling visualizations and reports to effectively communicate analytical findings. • Oversee the maintenance and enhancement of data pipelines to uphold data quality and precision. • Keep abreast of emerging trends and breakthroughs in data science and machine learning fields. • Proficiently extract, aggregate, and transform data from SQL and NoSQL databases, leveraging languages like R, Python, or other relevant tools for analysis and modeling. • Build, test, and validate statistical, and machine learning models and analyses using Python, R, or other appropriate language as part of overall solution development. • Lead implementation of analytic solutions into reporting platforms or production systems by leading the solution design, development, testing, and monitoring. • Demonstrate operational excellence by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues, including participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of experience with building optimization algorithms or relevant experience. • Advanced proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, and Java. • Demonstrated expertise in utilizing data visualization tools to communicate insights clearly and effectively. • In-depth experience with data science cloud platforms and their integration into business solutions. • Exceptional intellectual curiosity and a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment. • Track record of rapidly acquiring new technical skills and adapting to cutting-edge technologies. • Strong communication skills to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences with clarity and professionalism. • Deep understanding and application of statistical analysis and advanced machine learning techniques. • Must understand and have proficiency in the core architecture of LLMs (e.g., transformers and attention mechanisms) • Experience with prompt engineering techniques, including chain-of-thought prompting, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning of language models, and evaluation methodologies. • Experience with Vector Databases and embeddings. • Experience with Model Fine-tuning. • Experience with GPU optimization.

🏖️ Benefits

• An industry-leading 401(k) and renowned Railroad Retirement program. • A range of robust health care options for you and your dependents (including domestic partners), including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, cancer support, and high-quality care network options. • Health care spending accounts (HSA) with employer contributions, as well as life and disability insurance, provided at no cost. • Family benefits including parental, pediatric and family building support, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and dependent care spending account (with employer match). • Access to discounts on travel, gym memberships, counseling services and wellness support. • Annual bonus (Incentive Compensation Program) • Generous leave / time off policies.