Principal Data Scientist — AI Strategy & Delivery

Toyota; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care and wellness plans

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Vehicle purchase discount program

Lease vehicle program (if applicable)

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Toyota’s Digital Innovations group seeks a highly experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead data science strategy and execution across Supply Chain AI initiatives. You will guide architecture, model decisions, and delivery across multiple teams, while mentoring talent and shaping governance and standards.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Innovations, you will champion modern data science practices, drive scalable, responsible AI, and partner with product, engineering, and business

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and delivering complex enterprise data science, machine learning, analytics, or software solutions.
• 5+ years of cloud-native data science and ML architecture on AWS, Databricks, and Azure.
• 5+ years delivering production data science solutions with Python, SQL, PySpark, Databricks, Spark, MLflow, SageMaker or Bedrock.
• Ability to mentor senior data scientists, ML engineers, and technical leads.

Responsibilities

• Define and advance the technical approach for Supply Chain data science and AI products built on AWS, Databricks, and Azure.
• Lead architecture and design decisions across data science products and development teams.
• Provide principal-level technical leadership across the full data science lifecycle from discovery to deployment.
• Mentor data scientists and engineering managers to elevate technical excellence.
• Directly lead technical work across development teams when needed and coordinate execution.
• Drive disciplined execution through scaled agile delivery with defined stories and acceptance criteria.
• Turn Supply Chain priorities into actionable technical delivery plans for spend analysis, forecasting, scenario planning, and AI-enabled decision support.

Job description

Toyota’s Digital Innovations group seeks a highly experienced Principal Data Scientist to lead data science strategy and execution across Supply Chain AI initiatives. You will guide architecture, model decisions, and delivery across multiple teams, while mentoring talent and shaping governance and standards.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Innovations, you will champion modern data science practices, drive scalable, responsible AI, and partner with product, engineering, and business