Senior Data Scientist: End-to-End ML for Homebuilding

Forestar Group; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

401(K)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and HOL

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn complex data into advanced analytics, ML, and AI solutions that drive business performance. You will lead modeling from framing to deployment and partner with business and engineering teams to produce measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes end-to-end model delivery, production monitoring, and applying practical business judgment to deliver value. Travel overnight may be required as part of collaboration across functions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a quantitative field or bachelor's degree with equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of data science, machine learning, analytics, statistics, or related experience.
• Strong Python and SQL with practical experience in ML, forecasting, statistics, or optimization, and familiarity with LLMs, prompt/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.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, and deliver results in an evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, and document predictive, forecasting, optimization, statistical, and ML models for priority use cases.
• Perform exploratory analysis and feature engineering using enterprise data.
• Define evaluation approaches aligned with business decisions and constraints.
• Partner with engineers to integrate models into workflows, APIs, and production monitoring.
• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to business partners.
• Represent the analytics function in cross-functional discovery, governance, and improvement activities.
• Stay current on data and AI practices and apply new capabilities that create business value.
• Identify and pilot new opportunities where data and AI create value.

Skills

Python programming

SQL

Machine learning

Forecasting

Statistical analysis

Optimization

LLMs / prompt engineering

Decision communication

Education

Master's degree in a quantitative field

Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Azure ML

MLflow

Open-source ML libraries

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to turn complex data into advanced analytics, ML, and AI solutions that drive business performance. You will lead modeling from framing to deployment and partner with business and engineering teams to produce measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes end-to-end model delivery, production monitoring, and applying practical business judgment to deliver value. Travel overnight may be required as part of collaboration across functions.