Senior Data Scientist — Generative AI & Analytics

General Mills, Inc; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design, prototype and build next-generation analytics engines.

You will partner with product owners, business partners, and other data scientists to translate objectives into measurable outcomes and build data-driven solutions that support decisions. You will apply machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval techniques, prototype efficient analytical models, and contribute to agentic AI and RAG workflows while ensuring clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, CS, engineering, math or statistics.
• 6+ years of relevant experience with at least 2 years in Data Science.
• Strong statistical reasoning and problem-solving ability.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with AI/ML concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI solutions for semi-structured data across classification, extraction and summarization.
• Develop agentic AI and RAG workflows to optimize data ingestion, embeddings and vector indexing.
• Evaluate new technologies and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Iterate quickly with generative AI approaches and monitor model performance.
• Translate business goals into measurable analytical outcomes and explain recommendations.

Skills

Statistical reasoning

Critical thinking

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science, CS, engineering, math, statistics

Tools

Python

SQL

GCP

Job description

General Mills, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design, prototype and build next-generation analytics engines.

You will partner with product owners, business partners, and other data scientists to translate objectives into measurable outcomes and build data-driven solutions that support decisions. You will apply machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval techniques, prototype efficient analytical models, and contribute to agentic AI and RAG workflows while ensuring clear