Senior Data Scientist - Materials & Bio-Polymers R&D

IPG; Marysville (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Extensive benefits

Career development opportunities

Job summary

IPG invites you to join our R&D team as a Senior Data Scientist based in Marysville, MI or work remotely with travel as needed. You will apply advanced data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning to bio‑polymers and sustainable materials to accelerate innovation and reduce development cycles.

You will partner with polymer scientists, chemists, and engineers, design experiments (DOE), build reproducible data workflows, and mentor junior data scientists while advancing materials

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, CS, Statistics, Materials Science or Chemical Engineering; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 10+ years of professional data science or scientific computing experience, with materials or polymer data preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis and modeling.
• Solid experience with SQL and handling structured and semi-structured data.
• Experience applying ML to real-world, noisy scientific data.
• Ability to work across a cross-functional R&D team.

Responsibilities

• Partner with polymer scientists, chemists, and engineers to support bio‑polymer research using data-driven methods.
• Analyze and model experimental, formulation, and process data to identify structure–property–process relationships.
• Develop predictive models for material performance, formulation design, and scale‑up.
• Design and analyze DOE experiments to maximize learning and reduce timelines.
• Build and maintain reproducible data workflows for ingestion, cleaning, and analysis.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to data science best practices.

Skills

Data analysis

Machine learning

Statistics

Experiment design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science/CS/Statistics/Materials Science/C Chemical Engineering

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Python

R

SQL

DOE software

LIMS

Job description

IPG invites you to join our R&D team as a Senior Data Scientist based in Marysville, MI or work remotely with travel as needed. You will apply advanced data science, statistical modeling, and machine learning to bio‑polymers and sustainable materials to accelerate innovation and reduce development cycles.

You will partner with polymer scientists, chemists, and engineers, design experiments (DOE), build reproducible data workflows, and mentor junior data scientists while advancing materials