Senior Data Scientist — AI & Supply Chain Impact

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plans

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Toyota North America's Digital Innovations group in Plano, TX, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and maintain data science and AI solutions that support Supply Chain decisions. You will work on fusion teams with engineers, product, and operators, delivering value through scalable models and dashboards.

Bring 5+ years of hands-on data science experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and cloud experience (AWS/Databricks).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on data science or ML experience.
• 3+ years Python/SQL and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Proficiency in supervised and unsupervised learning and time-series forecasting.
• Experience with cloud-based data/ML technologies (AWS, Spark, Databricks).
• Excellent collaboration and communication across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement data science and AI solutions aligned with architectural decisions and enterprise standards.
• Design, develop, and maintain reproducible data prep, feature engineering, modeling, and scoring workflows using Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud services.
• Implement and optimize ML approaches including forecasting, anomaly detection, NLP, and generative AI for supply chain decisions.
• Refine requirements with Business Product Owners and define success measures and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure data quality, model validation, evaluation, explainability, and robust production operation.
• Troubleshoot data, model, and app issues to maintain project momentum.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate models and AI capabilities into product framework.
• Meet non-functional requirements: security, privacy, performance, scalability, monitoring, and integrations.
• Use AI tools judiciously to assist in analysis, coding, testing, and documentation while upholding quality.
• Prototype quickly to test ideas and share learnings, including failures.
• Engage with planners and operations teams to ensure solutions reflect real-world workflows.
• Introduce new tools and emerging tech to the team and drive adoption.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Statistical analysis

Data integration

Python

SQL

Databricks

Cloud platforms

Model development

Code reviews

Tools

Python

SQL

Databricks

AWS

Spark

Pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Toyota North America's Digital Innovations group in Plano, TX, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and maintain data science and AI solutions that support Supply Chain decisions. You will work on fusion teams with engineers, product, and operators, delivering value through scalable models and dashboards.

Bring 5+ years of hands-on data science experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and cloud experience (AWS/Databricks).