Remote Senior Automotive Data Scientist — Insights-Driven

Placements24; Upington; Hybrid; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Performance bonus

Professional development

Remote work across SA

Job summary

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking a highly analytical Senior Automotive Data Scientist for a fully remote role. You will work from anywhere in SA to derive insights from large automotive datasets, build predictive models, and influence product and operations decisions.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams, mentor junior data scientists, and ensure data quality and regulatory compliance while staying current with ML research.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field.
• Minimum 6 years of professional data science experience in automotive/IoT/manufacturing contexts.
• Proficient in statistical modeling, ML techniques, and experimental design.

Responsibilities

• Collect and process large automotive datasets (telematics, sensor data, customer interactions).
• Develop and deploy advanced statistical models and ML algorithms for predictive analytics and forecasting.
• Design experiments to test hypotheses and measure impact of automotive initiatives.
• Visualize findings for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to define data requirements and features.
• Develop dashboards and reports to monitor KPIs and progress.
• Mentor junior data scientists and grow the data science practice.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Statistics

Machine learning

Python

R

Big data

SQL

Data visualization

Remote work

Education

Master's or PhD in Statistics/CS/Data Science/Math

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Placements24 in South Africa is seeking a highly analytical Senior Automotive Data Scientist for a fully remote role. You will work from anywhere in SA to derive insights from large automotive datasets, build predictive models, and influence product and operations decisions.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams, mentor junior data scientists, and ensure data quality and regulatory compliance while staying current with ML research.