Data Scientist: AI Agents, Automation & Data Tools

Monmouth University; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

~4 weeks PTO in first full year

Career growth: promote-from-within

Job summary

KEYENCE U.S. Headquarters in Itasca, IL is seeking a Data Scientist to lead analytics, automation, and AI-driven tool development end-to-end. You will translate vague business requests into defined problems and build practical data products and ML solutions.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a quantitative field and 1–2 years of production experience, with strong Python/SQL skills and API/data source integration. Competitive base salary with bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• 1–2 years of experience building and deploying data, automation, or AI solutions in a production setting.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with a track record of shipping data or AI solutions beyond prototypes.
• Experience automating business or technical processes and integrating with APIs and data sources.
• Software development fundamentals: modular code, version control, testing, and documentation.
• Solid data analysis and visualization skills with clear communication to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and balance speed with reliability.
• Pragmatic problem solving: knows when a simple rules-based automation beats an ML model or LLM.
• LLM and AI agent development experience, including prompt design, tool calling, RAG, embeddings, and agent evaluation.
• Workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Power Automate), Docker, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.
• Internal web tools (FastAPI, Streamlit) and experience with process improvement or operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal stakeholders to translate vague requests into well-defined problems and high value solutions.
• Design, build, and deploy automations, AI enabled tools, internal apps, and analytical solutions.
• Develop AI agents and LLM powered workflows with appropriate guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
• Perform exploratory and statistical analysis; design experiments and communicate findings clearly.
• Build reliable data pipelines and reusable tools with solid engineering practices (Git, testing, documentation, CI/CD).
• Own solutions from idea through deployment, adoption, and ongoing support.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Communication

Automation

Problem solving

ML basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Airflow

Prefect

Power Automate

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud deployment

FastAPI

Streamlit

Job description

KEYENCE U.S. Headquarters in Itasca, IL is seeking a Data Scientist to lead analytics, automation, and AI-driven tool development end-to-end. You will translate vague business requests into defined problems and build practical data products and ML solutions.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a quantitative field and 1–2 years of production experience, with strong Python/SQL skills and API/data source integration. Competitive base salary with bonus and comprehensive benefits.