Senior Data Scientist

General Mills; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills, Digital and Technology India, is seeking a Sr Data Scientist to join the Data Science team. You will build enterprise intelligent automations and enable Core ML, Deep Learning, Generative AI across various CPG use cases.

You will lead ML model development, apply sound experimentation, and champion Responsible AI while mentoring junior data scientists and collaborating with ML and systems engineers.

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of analytics or data science experience with production ML/AI delivery.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, AI, ML, statistics, OR from a Tier 1 institute.
• Strong expertise in supervised ML including regression, classification, time series, NN, and NLP.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Google Cloud Platform; exposure to Agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalable data science solutions across Core ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.
• Partner with stakeholders to frame problems and translate needs into measurable outcomes.
• Develop and evaluate ML models across regression, classification, forecasting, NLP, and DL.
• Design and implement Agentic AI, LLM, NLP, and RAG workflows with data curation and retrieval optimization.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to best practices and governance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

CPG domain experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/AI/ML/Statistics/OR

Tools

Python

SQL

Google Cloud Platform

MLOps

Containerization

Job description

Job Description:

Company Overview

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

Job Overview

General Mills, Digital and Technology India, is seeking a Sr Data Scientist to join the Data Science team. Data Scientists within our team are dedicated to build enterprise intelligent automations and enable Core ML, Deep Learning, Generative AI solutions on various use cases in CPG. They are also responsible for curating a community of practice to determine the best standards and practices around data science at General Mills.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable data science solutions that solve high-value business problems across Core ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI.
• Partner with business stakeholders to frame problems, translate needs into measurable outcomes, and communicate insights and recommendations clearly.
• Develop and evaluate ML models across regression, classification, forecasting, optimization, NLP, and deep learning, apply robust experimentation, evaluation, and error-analysis practices.
• Design and implement Agentic AI, LLM, NLP, and RAG solutions, including data curation, ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, retrieval optimization, fine-tuning, and human-in-the-loop evaluation.
• Define and maintain business semantics, including ontologies, taxonomies, and metadata, to enable consistent retrieval and reasoning across enterprise information.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and systems engineers to deploy, monitor, and improve production models, proactively address performance degradation and maintainability through MLOps practices.
• Champion Responsible AI by applying privacy, security, governance, transparency, and bias-reduction practices throughout solution design and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership through solution reviews, consultation, and constructively challenge other data scientist on the approach.
• Contribute to best practices as we evaluate new platforms, tools, and pipelines.
• Apply sound judgment in selecting methods and techniques for complex, diverse business problems.
• Build connections with senior internal and external experts to bring relevant perspectives into solution design.
• Build trusted stakeholder relationships, manage priorities and delivery commitments, and represent Data Science as a thought partner across functions.
• Mentor junior data scientists, interns, and contractors and support their technical and domain development.
• Stay current on industry trends, lead applied research aligned to business needs, and contribute to relevant open-source innovation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10-12 years of relevant analytics or data science experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering production ML and AI solutions.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline from a Tier 1 institute.
• Strong expertise in supervised machine learning, including regression, decision trees, ensemble methods, time series, forecasting, neural networks, and model performance tuning, exposure to unsupervised learning and NLP.
• Strong understanding of production ML practices, including MLOps, containerization, data lineage, model monitoring, and visualization.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Agile delivery practices, including sprints, estimation, and daily stand-ups.
• Strong stakeholder management, consulting, communication, and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in the FMCG/CPG domain, supply chain analytics experience is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading the design and implementation of complex end-to-end data science solutions using Generative AI, LLM, NLP, Agentic AI, or RAG from business problem framing and data curation through fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Strong understanding and experience in architecting high-quality Agentic AI and RAG workflows, including data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and optimizing retrieval performance using established frameworks and vector stores.
• Expertise in hypothesis-driven experimentation, defining robust evaluation strategies, error taxonomies, and human-in-the-loop reviews.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI tooling such as Vertex AI, LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, embeddings, or vector databases.
• Experience with deep learning, optimization, or operations research.
• Experience with GCP architecture and enterprise-scale AI solution design.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals and Responsible AI governance.

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.