Senior AI/ML Data Scientist - Production & Enterprise

Nestle SA; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert Data Scientist to fuse business insights with advanced AI/ML and data science. You will design, implement, and scale analytics solutions across the organization, building robust use cases and production-grade models to deliver measurable business value.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, scale ML capabilities, and ensure secure, reliable deployments while coaching others and upholding responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years of experience building and deploying production AI/ML solutions adopted by end users, including scaling solutions in enterprise environments using MLOps, cloud data platforms, and emerging AI/ML technologies.
• 3+ years of experience developing with Python/PySpark to automate tasks, manipulate data, and build production-level data science solutions in an MLOps environment.
• 3+ years of experience managing stakeholders with minimal oversight, maintain relationships, presenting to senior executives, and communicating high-level technical concepts in clear, colloquial, action-oriented language.
• 2+ years of experience mentoring/ coaching junior peers and teammates.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to‑end development and deployment of machine learning models from experimentation and evaluation through production deployment, adoption, and ongoing optimization, aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to translate complex or ambiguous business challenges into clear technical requirements, defining data needs, success criteria, tradeoffs, risks, and actionable solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Develop and deploy solutions within enterprise cloud environments, including automating jobs, provisioning resources, deploying packages, and navigating enterprise security requirements.
• Design evaluation, monitoring, and validation frameworks for production AI/ML solutions, identifying model, data-quality, and pipeline issues to ensure solutions remain reliable and effective at scale.
• Partner across global and regional IT & Digital teams to scale analytics and ML capabilities, navigating enterprise platforms, roadmaps, and processes to enable adoption.
• Elevate team and organizational capability by documenting technical decisions and learnings, coaching teammates and business users, and applying security, resilience, and responsible AI/ML principles throughout solution development.

Skills

End-to-end ML deployment

Python/PySpark development

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

MLOps / cloud data platforms

Education

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

Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related discipline preferred

Job description

Nestlé IT & Digital Americas is seeking an Expert Data Scientist to fuse business insights with advanced AI/ML and data science. You will design, implement, and scale analytics solutions across the organization, building robust use cases and production-grade models to deliver measurable business value.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, scale ML capabilities, and ensure secure, reliable deployments while coaching others and upholding responsible AI practices.