Senior Data Scientist - End-to-End ML for Business Impact

D.R. Horton, Inc.; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Paid time off

Voluntary benefits

Company provided benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn complex data into advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions that improve decisions and business performance.

You will lead modeling work from framing to deployment, partnering with business and engineering teams to create production-ready analytics. The role requires strong Python/SQL skills, 5+ years in data science, and the ability to communicate insights to nontechnical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field or bachelor's degree with equivalent experience.
• 5 or more years of data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, statistics, or related experience.
• Strong Python and SQL with practical experience in machine learning, forecasting, statistical analysis, or optimization, and working familiarity with LLMs, prompt and context engineering, and evaluation design.
• Experience with model validation, experimentation, feature engineering, version control, and production collaboration.
• Strong business communication and ability to work with nontechnical domain experts.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, and document predictive, forecasting, optimization, statistical, and machine learning models for assigned priority use cases
• Perform exploratory analysis and feature engineering using enterprise data while identifying data quality and measurement limitations
• Define evaluation approaches that reflect the actual business decision, operational constraints, and cost of errors
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and engineers to integrate models into workflows, applications, APIs, and production monitoring
• Communicate findings, uncertainty, assumptions, and recommendations clearly to business partners
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Skills

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

Forecasting

Statistical Analysis

Optimization

LLMs

Evaluation Design

Production Analytics

Communication

Education

Master's degree in a quantitative field

Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Azure ML

MLflow

Open-source ML libraries

Geospatial data

Document AI

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn complex data into advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions that improve decisions and business performance.

You will lead modeling work from framing to deployment, partnering with business and engineering teams to create production-ready analytics. The role requires strong Python/SQL skills, 5+ years in data science, and the ability to communicate insights to nontechnical stakeholders.