Senior Data Scientist - Guardian Industries

Guardian Industries, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is a global leader in glass manufacturing and coated glass products. The company is dedicated to innovation, sustainability, and delivering high-quality solutions across various industries, including automotive and building products. Our Advanced Analytics Capability is at the forefront of leveraging data and AI to drive business growth and operational excellence. We seek a Senior Data Scientist to join our AI and Data Science team to embark on the journey of developing Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI tools to drive business value and enhance operations and commercial outcomes.

Our highly skilled, enthusiastic data scientists are redefining what's possible for Guardian by utilizing the massive amount of process data to transform operations, research, and development. We invest in our team by encouraging attendance at industry conferences and ongoing education opportunities, enabling them to stay in the dynamic, ever-changing data science landscape and bring new methods and techniques to their projects.

What You Will Do

• Develop a strong understanding of the operations and business processes and identify possible opportunities that add value.
• Apply machine learning algorithms to perform analysis, create predictive models, visualize data, and drive projects through to delivery toward solving operations problems.
• Interact with business and manufacturing SMEs to identify requirements and propose solutions.
• Have the intellectual curiosity to research and identify new modeling technologies/methodologies/software packages to improve the current modeling processes.
• Continuously scan and test new data sources, tools, and analytical techniques and partner with leading institutions and experts to contribute to our portfolio of next-generation analytics projects.
• Analyze large complex time series datasets to extract useful patterns to deliver business insights and communicate results to key decision-makers.
• Issue reports detailing tool development (including unsuccessful approaches), quality assurance actions performed, results, etc.
• Work with data engineers to improve functionality in data systems (e.g., data reliability, efficiency, usability, and quality) and improve downstream data analysis capabilities.
• Rapidly design, prototype, and test many possible hypotheses . Further, focus on building minimum viable products toward solving most of the issues instead of "perfecting" the solution unless it is critical to safety.
• Leading and working on multiple projects simultaneously and switching priorities as the business needs require.
• Employ visualization, reporting, and other tools to improve how teams access various datasets.
• Strong data-driven storytelling to present to stockholders.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years of experience in applying ML to solve complex application problems.
• Excellent knowledge of various predictive, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques (classification, predictive, artificial neural networks, etc.) and real-world applications such as computer vision.
• 3+ years of experience with hands-on experience in programming with Python and machine learning packages ( Tensorflow / PyTorch , Keras , Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy , Plotly , Shiny, etc.)
• Fluent with SQL.
• Familiarity with various computing infrastructures and technologies e.g., AWS, GPU, Linux, GIT, etc.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Ph.D. or Masters degree in a quantitative field (Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Operational Research, Economics, or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of glass manufacturing processes and/or vacuum coating or similar manufacturing.
• Experience in process operations analytics and manufacturing optimization
• Knowledge of tools such as Spark, Docker, Snowflake, AWS, Azure DevOps,
• Familiarity with Azure AI services.
• Experience in developing LLM solutions and designing tools or plugins to enhance LLM functionality.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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