Lead Data Scientist

Tyson Foods; Springdale, Northern (AR, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

401(k) plans

Health, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, AR seeks a Lead Data Scientist to develop analytics applications translating raw data into actionable insights. You will co-own the MLOps roadmap, mentor teams, and lead AI strategy with practical model evaluation and validation.

The role emphasizes scalable deployment, cost efficiency, and observability, plus end-to-end testing and monitoring across ML pipelines to drive business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics.
• 3 years of related experience in data science or ML roles.
• Experience with ML including binary classifiers using Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow.
• Experience with data engineering, unstructured data ingestion and staging.
• Experience designing and deploying scalable RESTful services to expose ML models.
• Experience with computer vision and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information.
• Co-own MLOps roadmap and mentor teams on AI strategy and model evaluation/validation.
• Scale model deployment with emphasis on performance, cost, and observability.
• Execute end-to-end testing including deployment smoke tests and monitoring of ML pipelines.
• Broaden data science lifecycle management and contribute reusable ML architecture assets.

Job description

Job Details

Tyson Foods, Inc. has an opening for Lead Data Scientist in Springdale, AR.

Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software.

Responsible for end-to-end testing, including deployment smoke tests and continuous monitoring.

Co-own machine learning operations (MLOps) roadmap, support and mentor teams in achieving milestones, showing leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and the practical application of model evaluation and validation.

Responsible for scaling and cost-efficient model deployment, ensuring responsiveness and observability.

Execute complex software testing practices, including end-to-end, integration, and smoke testing in machine learning pipelines.

Scale model deployment with an emphasis on performance, cost, and observability, including model monitoring at appropriate cadences.

Broaden data science lifecycle management, involving roadmaps with business outcomes verified by business and finance teams.

Contribute to the design of reusable machine learning architecture assets and patterns.

Job Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Alternatively, the Employer will accept a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience must include at least 2 years of experience in each of the following:

• Machine Learning, including binary classifiers using Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow.
• Data Engineering, including managing unstructured data ingestion, and staging.
• Designing and deploying scalable RESTful web services to expose machine learning models to production.
• Computer Vision, including applied advanced image processing techniques and object segmentation.
• Distributed Systems, including architecting message queuing systems to handle asynchronous task processing.
• Deployment and Version Control, including utilizing containerization and version control for software lifecycle management using Docker and Git.

Relocation Assistance Eligible: No Work Shift: 1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Tyson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

Benefits

• We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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