Senior Data Scientist

Johnson Controls, Inc.; São João da Madeira; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance incentives

Certification sponsorship

Learning budget

Leadership pathway

Mentorship

GenAI tooling

Hybrid work

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive the Agentic AI Platform, building autonomous, tool-using AI agents that plan, reason, and execute complex business workflows end-to-end.

The role requires strong ML fundamentals and hands-on experience with LLM-based application development, agent orchestration, and Microsoft Azure cloud services. You will architect production-grade agentic solutions, mentor junior team members, and set technical direction for GenAI initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong background in data science/ML with production-ready LLM/GenAI applications.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Deep knowledge of prompt engineering and design patterns for AI systems.
• Expert Python programming including data libraries and API development.
• Experience with vector databases and embeddings (Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, FAISS, pgvector).
• Strong SQL skills and working with large-scale data.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and productionize multi-agent systems and orchestration.
• Develop end-to-end RAG pipelines and document ingestion workflows.
• Integrate agents with enterprise systems via tool/function calling and MCP-like patterns.
• Build LLM evaluation and governance for agentic workflows; monitor metrics and drift.
• Mentor junior data scientists and lead code/design reviews.
• Own LLMOps/MLOps aspects: experiment tracking, CI/CD, observability, retraining strategies.

Skills

LLM/GenAI

LangChain/LangGraph

Prompt engineering

Python (NumPy, pandas)

Vector databases

SQL

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

FAISS

pgvector

Pinecone

Weaviate

Synapse Analytics

Job description

What you will do

We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist to play a key role in building our Agentic AI Platform - a system of autonomous, tool-using AI agents that plan, reason, and execute complex business workflows end-to-end. The ideal candidate combines strong ML fundamentals with hands-on experience in LLM-based application development, agent orchestration frameworks, and Microsoft Azure cloud services. You will architect and ship production-grade agentic solutions, mentor junior team members, and set technical direction for GenAI initiatives across the organization.

How you will do it

• Design, build, and productionize multi-agent systems - including planning, tool calling / function calling, memory, and orchestration - using frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
• Develop RAG pipelines end-to-end: document ingestion, chunking strategies, embeddings, vector search (Azure AI Search / FAISS / pgvector), re-ranking, and grounding for agent knowledge.
• Integrate agents with enterprise systems and APIs via tool/function calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar connector patterns.
• Build and maintain LLM evaluation frameworks for agentic workflows - task-completion metrics, hallucination detection, trajectory analysis, LLM-as-judge pipelines, and A/B testing.
• Implement guardrails, safety, and governance for agents: prompt-injection defense, content filtering, role-based tool permissions, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and audit logging.
• Fine-tune and optimize LLMs where needed (LoRA/PEFT, prompt optimization, model routing, latency/cost trade-offs) on Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry.
• Design, build, and evaluate classical ML models (classification, regression, forecasting, NLP) where they complement agentic workflows.
• Own LLMOps/MLOps for the platform: experiment tracking, prompt versioning, CI/CD, observability and tracing (LangSmith, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry), drift monitoring, and retraining strategies.
• Collaborate with data engineers on data quality, availability, and governance across Azure Data Lake, Databricks, and Synapse Analytics.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into agentic AI solutions; present architecture decisions and results to senior stakeholders.
• Mentor junior data scientists, lead code/design reviews, and champion engineering best practices.

What we look for

Required

• professional experience in data science / ML, with building LLM or GenAI applications in production.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks LangChain or LangGraph.
• Strong understanding of LLM application patterns including prompt engineering
• Expert-level Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, async programming, API development with FastAPI).
• Experience with vector databases and embeddings (Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, FAISS, or pgvector).
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale data.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Opportunity to architect a greenfield agentic AI platform from the ground up.
• Azure and AI certification sponsorship plus a continuous learning budget.
• Technical leadership pathway and mentorship opportunities.
• Access to cutting-edge GenAI tooling, compute, and cross-domain AI projects.
• Flexible hybrid working model and collaborative culture.

About Us

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and believe that different perspectives make us stronger. By encouraging open dialogue and valuing individuality, we strive to be one of the most desirable places to work.

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