Senior Data Scientist — Production ML & Strategy

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(K)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Company benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics, ML, and AI initiatives, guiding models from exploration to production. You will shape enterprise capabilities and mentor teams to deliver high-impact solutions that align with business goals.

Collaborate with operators and engineers to deploy robust models, set rigorous standards, and drive measurable business value. Expect ownership, frequent stakeholder interaction, and occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 10+ years of data science, machine learning, operations research, statistics, or advanced analytics experience.
• Expert Python and SQL skills with deep experience in statistical modeling, ML, forecasting, optimization, experimentation; working knowledge of LLMs, evaluation design, and document AI.
• Experience deploying and monitoring models in production and collaborating with engineering for scalable implementations.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to explain complex methods to business leaders.
• Ability to work independently, own initiatives, and deliver results in a changing environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization and balance standards with business needs.
• Ability to sit for a majority of the 8-hour workday; vision requirements noted.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of forecasting, optimization, ML, causal, and experimentation solutions.
• Translate high-value business decisions into analytical formulations, assumptions, constraints, evaluation methods, and measurable outcomes.
• Set modeling standards for validation, reproducibility, explainability, monitoring, bias/risk assessment, and technical documentation.
• Work with business operators and Forward Deployed Engineers to embed models into workflows.
• Mentor data scientists and review modeling approaches, code, experiments, and production readiness.
• Build trusted relationships across the organization and balance enterprise standards with business needs.
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Stay current on data, AI, digital, software and apply capabilities that create business value.
• Identify and pilot new opportunities where data and AI create value with an ownership mindset.
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner.
• Ability to travel overnight.

Skills

Python

SQL

Forecasting

Optimization

Experimentation

LLMs

Document AI

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Tools

Jupyter

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Git

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead advanced analytics, ML, and AI initiatives, guiding models from exploration to production. You will shape enterprise capabilities and mentor teams to deliver high-impact solutions that align with business goals.

Collaborate with operators and engineers to deploy robust models, set rigorous standards, and drive measurable business value. Expect ownership, frequent stakeholder interaction, and occasional travel.