Senior Data Scientist - AI & Supply Chain Innovation

toyota; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyota Motor North America, based in Plano, TX, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Digital Innovations team within the Supply Chain organization. You will implement and maintain high-quality data science and AI solutions while collaborating with senior team members to deliver value to our customers.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Innovations, you will support Supply Chain transformation and accelerate adoption of modern technologies and platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with modern data science technologies.
• 5+ years creating end-to-end data science or ML solutions for large data and Supply Chain decisions.
• 3+ years hands-on with Python, SQL, data prep, model development, and reproducible workflows.
• Proficiency in supervised/unsupervised learning, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, feature engineering, and related libraries.

Responsibilities

• Implement data science and AI solutions aligned with architectural decisions and enterprise standards.
• Design and maintain reproducible data prep, feature engineering, modeling, and scoring workflows using Python, SQL, Databricks, and cloud services.
• Develop and optimize ML approaches for forecasting, anomaly detection, NLP, and generative AI in Supply Chain decisions.
• Collaborate with Business Product Owners to refine requirements and success criteria.
• Apply data quality, model validation, evaluation, explainability, and error analysis to ensure reliability.
• Troubleshoot data, model, and application issues to ensure production stability.
• Integrate models and AI capabilities into the product framework with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure security, privacy, performance, scalability, monitoring, and system integrations.
• Use AI to assist daily work: analysis, coding, review, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Prototype quickly by building small tests, measuring results, and sharing learnings.
• Engage with planners, logistics, buyers, supplier development and operations to reflect real work.
• Introduce new tools and emerging technologies to the team's practice and drive adoption.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Statistical analysis

Data integration

Python

SQL

End-to-end ML

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

scikit-learn

PySpark

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Databricks

Job description

Toyota Motor North America, based in Plano, TX, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Digital Innovations team within the Supply Chain organization. You will implement and maintain high-quality data science and AI solutions while collaborating with senior team members to deliver value to our customers.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Digital Innovations, you will support Supply Chain transformation and accelerate adoption of modern technologies and platforms.