Senior AI Data Scientist - End-to-End, Hybrid Role

Nestlé S.A.; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé S.A.'s IT & Digital Americas team seeks an Expert AI Data Scientist to bridge business and technology, owning AI solutions end-to-end for Nestlé USA and beyond. This hybrid role blends product management and engineering and centers on durable impact, governance, and scalable AI delivery.

You will lead AI agents, design evaluation frameworks, and scale responsible AI while partnering with global teams to align with enterprise priorities, using Python, Databricks, and Snowflake, with a

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 with a demonstrated track record of building and shipping AI/ML solutions that real users adopted
• 3+ years of experience deploying and scaling solutions at enterprise scale, including MLOps and cloud platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake
• 3+ years of experience delivering production solutions with emerging technologies, advanced data and automation capabilities, or machine learning, with a recent focus on AI, GenAI, LLMs, agentic workflows

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought leader on emerging AI, GenAI, and agentic technologies, translating breakthrough capabilities into scalable applications aligned with Nestlé's business priorities and enterprise value
• Partner with stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into clear, precise specifications, surfacing data requirements, tradeoffs, and failure modes, and act as an internal consultant who scopes problems, defines success criteria, and drives alignment across the lifecycle
• Own AI applications end-to-end, from use-case concept and experimental design through industrialization, deployment, and adoption, staying accountable across the full lifecycle rather than a single phase
• Orchestrate AI agents across parallel streams of work, turning repeated tasks into reusable workflows the broader team can leverage, and incorporate agents into new and existing solutions as the technology landscape evolves
• Design evaluation frameworks, conformance checks, and monitoring that validate AI output against defined specifications before rollout, including detection of silent errors, and sustain solutions in production through agent-assisted diagnosis of data-quality and pipeline issues
• Strengthen the team's collective capability by documenting decisions, learnings, and incidents in shared resources, and coach business users and teammates to elevate performance across projects

Skills

Cross-functional teams

Python

AI/ML experience

GenAI/LLMs

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

MLOps

Job description

Nestlé S.A.'s IT & Digital Americas team seeks an Expert AI Data Scientist to bridge business and technology, owning AI solutions end-to-end for Nestlé USA and beyond. This hybrid role blends product management and engineering and centers on durable impact, governance, and scalable AI delivery.

You will lead AI agents, design evaluation frameworks, and scale responsible AI while partnering with global teams to align with enterprise priorities, using Python, Databricks, and Snowflake, with a