Senior AI Data Scientist: End-to-End GenAI & Adoption

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert AI Data Scientist to join Nestlé USA. You will sit at the interface of business and technology, framing problems and owning AI solutions end-to-end, from concept to adoption. The role is hybrid, requiring collaboration across global teams and a focus on secure, scalable AI deployments.

You will lead AI agent workflows, design evaluation methods, and drive adoption of advanced AI capabilities across Nestlé products and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions and drive adoption.
• 5+ years building and shipping AI/ML solutions with real users.
• 3+ years deploying and scaling enterprise-scale solutions including MLOps and cloud platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.
• 3+ years delivering production solutions with AI, GenAI, LLMs, agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought leader on AI, GenAI, and agentic technologies, translating capabilities into scalable applications.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate ambiguous needs into clear specs, surfacing data requirements and tradeoffs.
• Own AI applications end-to-end, from concept to deployment and adoption in production.
• Orchestrate AI agents across parallel work streams, building reusable workflows for the team.
• Design evaluation frameworks, conformance checks, and monitoring to validate AI output before rollout.
• Document decisions and coach teams to elevate performance across projects.
• Collaborate across global IT & Digital teams to scale AI solutions and align with enterprise roadmaps.
• Build secure, resilient AI solutions, anticipating failures and misuse in production.

Skills

Stakeholder collaboration

AI concepts

Problem framing

Cross-functional teamwork

Python fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related field

Master's or PhD in related discipline preferred

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Python

Job description

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert AI Data Scientist to join Nestlé USA. You will sit at the interface of business and technology, framing problems and owning AI solutions end-to-end, from concept to adoption. The role is hybrid, requiring collaboration across global teams and a focus on secure, scalable AI deployments.

You will lead AI agent workflows, design evaluation methods, and drive adoption of advanced AI capabilities across Nestlé products and operations.