Senior Data Scientist: AI, ML & Analytics Leader

Caterpillar; Franklin (IN); On-site; USD 113,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plan

Paid time off

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead the design, development, and deployment of analytics and AI-enabled solutions for the Reman Division. The role emphasizes rigorous modeling, production-ready pipelines, and collaboration with business stakeholders to drive measurable value.

Primary location is Mossville, IL, with additional locations including Franklin, IN and others. Requires a Bachelor's in a technical field and hands-on ML, Python, and analytics tooling expertise.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing data science and machine learning solutions using Python, including model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, forecasting, optimization, statistical analysis and feature engineering.
• Experience building AI-enabled solutions, including generative AI applications, natural language solutions, intelligent agents, or automation tools that improve analytical workflows.
• Proficiency with modern analytics and development tools such as dbt, Kedro, AWS, Docker, Snowflake, Azure DevOps, Git, and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI-enabled solutions across the Reman Division.
• Apply statistical modeling, ML techniques, optimization, forecasting, simulation, and experimentation to deliver measurable business value.
• Develop, validate, and operationalize descriptive analytics and predictive models using Python and modern data science practices.
• Build analytics products and decision-support tools that combine ML outputs, curated data assets, and Power BI reporting to improve adoption.
• Partner with stakeholders to frame analytical problems, define success measures, and translate requirements into data science solutions.
• Research, prototype, and implement emerging AI approaches to improve business processes and analytics productivity.
• Use Python, Kedro, dbt, Docker, AWS, Snowflake, Azure DevOps to create production-ready analytical workflows.
• Collaborate with data engineering to ensure data pipelines and governed data products support scalable solutions.
• Establish and promote data science best practices including version control, testing, and deployment standards.
• Lead Agile planning and mentor team on data science and analytics engineering practices.
• Champion sustainable analytics product development and standardized approaches.
• Define and execute standards for model documentation and operational support.

Skills

Python

ML/AI development

Power BI

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other Technical field

Tools

dbt

Kedro

AWS

Docker

Snowflake

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead the design, development, and deployment of analytics and AI-enabled solutions for the Reman Division. The role emphasizes rigorous modeling, production-ready pipelines, and collaboration with business stakeholders to drive measurable value.

Primary location is Mossville, IL, with additional locations including Franklin, IN and others. Requires a Bachelor's in a technical field and hands-on ML, Python, and analytics tooling expertise.