Data Scientist

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Your Role and Responsibilities
The IBM Sustainability Software business unit is seeking a talented and motivated data scientist to work as a Data Scientist across our portfolio of software products. Our group helps companies turn their sustainability ambitions into actions by embedding AI into the software that they use for managing their supply chains assets complex engineering and environmental intelligence processes. We work on problems for everything from predicting asset failures from IOT data to optimizing supply chain decisions to helping companies reduce their carbon footprint and understand the impacts of climate change on their business. You will work across the entire AI and software lifecycles including requirements gathering use case definition design model building implementation testing documentation and delivery. You’ll frequently work with Product Owners Architects Designers Sales Support Business Partners and customers throughout this process. This is an exciting opportunity to work as a part of a worldwide team of data scientists on problems that really matter at a scale that few other companies can support

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Total 6+ years experinece in Data/AI/Software development
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in the data science ecosystem including:
  • Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark Ray) and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch Tensorflow Keras)
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and Python
  • Hands-on experience building libraries and packages to be re-used by others
  • Hands-on experience building DS Solutions for production usage
• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms and their drawbacks
• Team player with a problem-solving attitude
• Experience in delivering advanced analytical projects to large complex organizations in a multi-functional environment.
• Able to challenge and review the quality and value generated from analytical outputs
• Focus on driving business value for clients to support long-term relationships.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Expertise in vision language models optimization or advanced machine learning techniques
• Familiarity with with DevOps frameworks (Git CI/CD Docker)
• Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to different audiences
• Independently contribute to projects or workstreams with limited guidance
• Has developed new approaches to existing methods and technologies to develop and deploy solutions
• Uses implements and shares knowledge and expertise to drive advances in project work
• Makes contributions to the creation of IP in form of patents publications assets
• Effectively coaches and at times manages the work of junior team members (including interns)