Data Scientist & AI Solutions Architect

Steampunk; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a seasoned Data Scientist to collaborate with our team of Data Architects and Developers on ML/AI solutions and data-driven strategies. You will craft models, perform feature engineering, and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.

You will work with data engineers and AI developers to productionize models, build dashboards, and communicate results clearly. A strong mix of technical and customer-facing skills is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific or technical discipline.
• 2-4 years of experience building ML/AI solutions.
• 2-4 years in Data Modeling and Data Solution Development.
• 1+ year in queue modeling and survival analysis.
• Strong programming in SQL, Python, R, Scala or Java.
• Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with DevSecOps in data science.
• Experience with TensorFlow, Keras, or similar DL tools.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Scala.
• Data visualization skills in Tableau, Power BI, D3, ArcGIS.
• Git, Bash, Unix commands experience.
• Cloud analytics (AWS/Azure/GCP) with SageMaker or similar.
• Familiarity with Flask, DBOps or MLOps is a plus.
• Experience with Solr, Elasticsearch or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover trends and data quality issues.
• Develop ML models using scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar.
• Perform feature engineering and model optimization for accuracy.
• Evaluate models with appropriate metrics and document findings.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to ensure production-ready datasets.
• Work with AI Developers to integrate models into production systems.
• Build dashboards and executive summaries to communicate insights.
• Translate user needs into modeling requirements and iterate outputs.
• Maintain reproducible code, notebooks, and experiment history.
• Stay current with data science methodologies and cloud analytics workflows.
• Contribute to Steampunk’s AI & Data Exploitation Practice.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Scala

Java

Data manipulation

Cloud analytics

TensorFlow

Keras

Hadoop

Spark

Elasticsearch

Solr

Git

Unix commands

Flask

DBOps/MLOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

D3

ArcGIS

Git

Bash

Unix

AWS SageMaker

Azure HDInsight

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a seasoned Data Scientist to collaborate with our team of Data Architects and Developers on ML/AI solutions and data-driven strategies. You will craft models, perform feature engineering, and deliver actionable insights to stakeholders.

You will work with data engineers and AI developers to productionize models, build dashboards, and communicate results clearly. A strong mix of technical and customer-facing skills is required.