Job Description

Schneider Electric is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist with a passion for learning and discovery. This person will help build industry-leading machine learning tools in the energy and sustainability management industry. As a member of the Sustainability Business team, you will collaborate with internal technology and business teams to build tools to support new services, expand and improve existing services and enable our teams to be more productive. You will be working with terabytes of structured and unstructured data to solve real-world problems. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop optimization techniques and tools to identify trends in complex, large, structured, and unstructured data sets.
• Design and develop simulation tools for training and testing ML, deep learning and AI models.
• Collaborate with other business team resources to identify, develop, test, and create new solutions/products.
• Apply knowledge of technology with knowledge of contemporary business models to synthesize potential opportunities.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies in ML subfields such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL).

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of professional industry experience required. This role is not open to recent graduates.
• Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, ML/AI, or equivalent.
• A strong understanding of AI and ML development, experience with MLOps.
• A “can-do” attitude and the ability to work both independently and within a small group.
• Experience with cloud computing in the context of ML and AI.
• Programming expertise in languages such as Python, SQL, R, etc.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, etc.
• Analytical self-starter with strong attention to detail and desire to learn new things.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to work on multiple complex projects in diverse areas, versatile and capable within multiple disciplines.
• Understanding of microservices and orchestration-based software, i.e. Docker and Kubernetes.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with optimization, time-series forecasting, and reinforcement learning are all a plus!
• Recent experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or other Generative AI is a plus!

Location:

• We prefer this role to be based in Louisville KY but will consider the right candidate in other US based locations.

Applicants are required to respond to specific questions as part of the application process. Failure to provide accurate responses, such as current location, will lead to immediate disqualification.

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