AI Data Scientist: End-to-End & Agentic Workflows

Nestle; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert AI Data Scientist to bridge business and technology, framing complex problems and owning AI solutions end-to-end, from concept to adoption. This hybrid role blends product leadership with engineering, guiding AI agents and reusable workflows that scale across Nestlé's USA markets.

You will translate ambiguous needs into precise specs, design evaluation and monitoring frameworks, and partner with global teams to deploy secure, responsible AI that

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and drive adoption
• 5+ years with a demonstrated track record of building and shipping AI/ML solutions that real users adopted
• 3+ years of experience deploying and scaling solutions at enterprise scale, including MLOps and cloud platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake
• 3+ years of experience delivering production solutions with emerging technologies, advanced data and automation capabilities, or machine learning, with a recent focus on AI, GenAI, LLMs, agentic workflows

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought leader on emerging AI, GenAI, and agentic technologies, translating breakthrough capabilities into scalable applications aligned with Nestlé's business priorities and enterprise value
• Partner with stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into clear, precise specifications, surfacing data requirements, tradeoffs, and failure modes, and act as an internal consultant who scopes problems, defines success criteria, and drives alignment across the lifecycle
• Own AI applications end-to-end, from use-case concept and experimental design through industrialization, deployment, and adoption, staying accountable across the full lifecycle rather than a single phase
• Orchestrate AI agents across parallel streams of work, turning repeated tasks into reusable workflows the broader team can leverage, and incorporate agents into new and existing solutions as the technology landscape evolves
• Design evaluation frameworks, conformance checks, and monitoring that validate AI output against defined specifications before rollout, including detection of silent errors, and sustain solutions in production through agent-assisted diagnosis of data-quality and pipeline issues
• Strengthen the team's collective capability by documenting decisions, learnings, and incidents in shared resources, and coach business users and teammates to elevate performance across projects
• Partner across global and regional IT & Digital teams to co-create and scale AI solutions, navigating platform roadmaps and enterprise processes to secure approval for needed features and capabilities
• Build solutions with security and resilience in mind, protecting sensitive data and safeguarding the critical business processes they touch, and anticipating failure and misuse so AI systems remains safe, trustworthy, and reliable in production

Job description

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert AI Data Scientist to bridge business and technology, framing complex problems and owning AI solutions end-to-end, from concept to adoption. This hybrid role blends product leadership with engineering, guiding AI agents and reusable workflows that scale across Nestlé's USA markets.

You will translate ambiguous needs into precise specs, design evaluation and monitoring frameworks, and partner with global teams to deploy secure, responsible AI that