Data Scientist - ML & AI for Pet Care Transformation

Nestlé Purina North America; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 88,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé Purina is seeking a Data Scientist to build and deploy ML and optimization models that drive measurable value across Manufacturing, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Consumer Insights. You’ll translate business problems into scalable analytics and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to enable real‑time decision making.

You will design production‑grade pipelines, contribute to GenAI initiatives like RAG and copilots, and advance MLOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, CS, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in data science, analytics, or ML, including developing optimization or predictive models.
• 3+ years of Python (scikit-learn, pandas, PySpark, NumPy) and SQL.
• 1+ years of experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and DevOps/CI-CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy machine learning, statistical, and optimization models that solve business problems and improve operational performance
• Support the development and maintenance of optimization engines that drive high‑value business decisions
• Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable analytical solutions
• Perform data wrangling, feature engineering, exploratory data analysis, and model evaluation using Python and SQL
• Design and maintain reusable analytics workflows and automated pipelines for production‑grade deployment
• Support GenAI‑enabled applications including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), copilots, and intelligent assistants
• Contribute to AIOps/MLOps practices including model versioning, monitoring, continuous integration, and continuous deployment pipelines, and responsible AI processes

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

DevOps/CI-CD

Data wrangling

Machine learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/CS/Statistics/Engineering/Math

Tools

MLflow

Azure ML

SageMaker

Kubeflow

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Nestlé Purina is seeking a Data Scientist to build and deploy ML and optimization models that drive measurable value across Manufacturing, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Consumer Insights. You’ll translate business problems into scalable analytics and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to enable real‑time decision making.

You will design production‑grade pipelines, contribute to GenAI initiatives like RAG and copilots, and advance MLOps practices.