Hybrid Data Scientist, R&D AI & Decision Support

Church & Dwight Co., Inc.; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Church & Dwight is seeking a Data Scientist to join our R&D Agentic Pod team, designing, building, deploying, and scaling AI-powered products that transform how R&D teams make decisions and operate.

This hybrid role is based in Princeton, NJ, collaborating with cross-functional partners to develop predictive and prescriptive models, embed analytics into dashboards and workflows, and drive measurable commercial impact through data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• 3+ years of data science or analytics experience.
• Experience applying statistics and ML to business problems.
• Hands-on Python models with scikit-learn or XGBoost.
• SQL experience with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Frame business questions and identify analytics opportunities with cross-functional teams.
• Develop predictive, prescriptive, segmentation, forecasting and optimization solutions.
• Build, validate, maintain, and monitor ML models in Python (scikit-learn, XGBoost).
• Define features, validation methods, and performance metrics with bias checks.
• Design test-and-learn frameworks to quantify incremental impact.
• Embed models into dashboards, apps, and decision-support tools.

Skills

Data-driven problem solving

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Python

SQL

scikit-learn

XGBoost

Job description

Church & Dwight is seeking a Data Scientist to join our R&D Agentic Pod team, designing, building, deploying, and scaling AI-powered products that transform how R&D teams make decisions and operate.

This hybrid role is based in Princeton, NJ, collaborating with cross-functional partners to develop predictive and prescriptive models, embed analytics into dashboards and workflows, and drive measurable commercial impact through data-driven insights.