Data Scientist

Robotics Technologies; Arden Hills (MN); On-site; USD 81,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotics Technologies in Arden Hills, MN is seeking a Data Scientist for a 12-month contract onsite to deliver governed statistical and machine learning solutions. You will collaborate with stakeholders to shape use cases, drive data-driven decisions, and create robust analytical workflows with a focus on privacy, sourcing, and risk management.

Responsibilities include data profiling and cleansing, feature engineering, model development and evaluation, plus clear communication of results and

Qualifications

• Translate business requirements into features, experiments, analytical workflows, and evaluation criteria.
• Develop and refine statistical and machine learning models with monitoring for accuracy, bias, explainability, and drift.
• Create reproducible analytical workflows and communicate uncertainty, risk, and quantified impact to business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Shape use cases with stakeholders and define decision needs and success criteria.
• Profile, cleanse, transform, and integrate data while respecting privacy and sourcing requirements.
• Translate domain knowledge into features, experiments, workflows, and evaluation criteria.
• Develop and compare statistical and ML models; monitor accuracy, bias, explainability, and drift.
• Create reproducible analytical workflows and communicate uncertainty, risk, and quantified impact.
• Leverage approved AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, and documentation while maintaining rigor.
• Communicate findings and actionable business implications clearly.
• Assist business owners with adoption and measurement; decisions remain with business owners.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, platform, and business teams to plan incremental deliverables and production support.
• Participate in analytical reviews and document reusable methods and insights.

Skills

Stakeholder comms

Data profiling

Data cleansing

Data transformation

Feature engineering

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Model evaluation

Experiment design

Explainability

Documentation

AI tools

Education

Job description

Robotics Technologies is hiring a Data Scientist in Arden Hills, MN (onsite) for a contract role (12 months plus extension), partnering with stakeholders to deliver governed statistical and machine learning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders to shape use cases, identify industry drivers, and align on decision needs and success criteria.
• Explore, profile, cleanse, transform, and integrate enterprise and reputable external data; validate data quality using source data, business rules, and industry context while meeting privacy, security, and sourcing requirements.
• Convert business requirements and domain knowledge into features, experiments, analytical workflows, and model evaluation criteria.
• Select, develop, compare, and iterate on statistical and machine learning models using sound statistical reasoning, business context, and reusable analytical components.
• Create reproducible analytical workflows and assess/monitor model performance, including accuracy, bias, explainability, and performance drift versus agreed business and technical criteria.
• Leverage approved AI tools to speed up coding, testing, and documentation, while staying accountable for method choice, analytical quality, interpretation, and clear communication.
• Separate meaningful signal from noise and communicate findings, including assumptions, tradeoffs, uncertainty, risk, and quantified impact as actionable business implications.
• Assist business owners with adoption and results measurement, with adoption and operational decisions remaining with business owners.
• Coordinate with product, engineering, platform, and business teams to plan incremental deliverables and support production integration, automated monitoring, or custom development as needed.
• Participate in analytical, model, and code reviews; document work and share statistical methods, domain insights, and reusable practices.

Requirements

• Experience framing use cases with stakeholders and defining decision needs and success criteria.
• Proficiency with the end-to-end data process: profiling, cleansing, transformation, and integration of enterprise and reputable external data, with attention to privacy and sourcing requirements.
• Ability to translate domain knowledge into features, experiments, analytical workflows, and evaluation criteria.
• Demonstrated skill developing and refining statistical and machine learning models, including evaluation and monitoring for accuracy, bias, explainability, and drift.
• Experience building reproducible analytical workflows and communicating uncertainty, risk, and quantified impact to business audiences.
• Comfort using approved AI tools for coding, testing, and documentation while maintaining accountability for analytical rigor and interpretation.
• Active participation in reviews and documentation; sharing reusable methods and insights across teams.
• Work authorization eligible as: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, or Other.

Details

• Location: Arden Hills, MN (onsite)
• Duration: 12 months plus extension
• Job Type: Contract
• Salary/Bill Rate: USD 71 per hourly
• Bill Rate Model: $71/hour (C2C)
• Employment Type Options: W-2, 1099, C2C
• Domain Exposure: Aerospace/ Airlines
• Client: To Be Discussed Later