AI Enablement Data Scientist - Internal Solutions

HDR, Inc.; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Job summary

HDR, Inc. is seeking an Applied Data Scientist – AI Enablement to build internal AI capabilities and remove bottlenecks for scaling AI across HDR’s Transportation Business Group.

The role evolves toward client-facing AI delivery and advisory work, leveraging proven internal solutions as repeatable services. This is an employee-owned environment that values collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a closely related field.
• 3+ years with data engineering tools and languages (SQL, Power Query, Pandas).
• 3+ years with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib).
• 3+ years with data science languages (Python, R).
• Experience with generative AI and modern AI services.
• Cloud-based data pipelines, scalable compute, and production model deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI solutions for internal transportation needs.
• Build reusable AI components and data pipelines scalable for client delivery.
• Manage full model lifecycle: development, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, retraining.

Skills

AI enablement

Data science

Cloud platforms

Python

R

SQL

Data pipeline design

Model lifecycle

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Advanced degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Power BI

Tableau

Plotly

Seaborn

Matplotlib

Python

R

SQL

Pandas

Job description

HDR, Inc. is seeking an Applied Data Scientist – AI Enablement to build internal AI capabilities and remove bottlenecks for scaling AI across HDR’s Transportation Business Group.

The role evolves toward client-facing AI delivery and advisory work, leveraging proven internal solutions as repeatable services. This is an employee-owned environment that values collaboration and innovation.