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General Motors Sr. Scientist - Data Management and Analytics Group - Data Science in Warren, Michigan
Job Description
The Role
Our culture is focused on building inclusive teams, where differences and unique perspectives are embraced so you can contribute to your fullest potential as you pursue your career. Our locations feature a variety of work environments, including open workspaces and virtual connection platforms to inspire productivity and flexible collaboration. We are proud to support our employees’ volunteer interests and prioritize efforts that give back to our communities.
What You'll Do
The Applied Analytics & Insights team is focused on execution-based analytics to help GM organizations achieve better business outcomes through contextualized solutions with targeted actions. The individual will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of various experience levels that frame opportunities, wrangle the necessary data, and design and execute analytical models in support of better business decisions. The team is responsible for both advanced analytics strategy and applied, project-based solutions, focusing on the company’s most critical business areas.
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Working on a cross-functional team to propose and implement high-impact, data-driven solutions to address business problems & objectives across a variety of business units.
Apply Data Science and Modeling techniques to drive data driven decision making and solve complex business problems:
Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
Analyze large amounts of diverse information to discover trends and patterns
Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data
Monitor and sustain model effectiveness
Combine models through ensemble modeling
Present complex information using data visualization techniques
Defining & estimating development work items.
Participating in (and preferably leading) project planning, scrum, and retrospective sessions.
Working with diverse technical teams, providing data and analytical oversight to ensure project deliverables fulfill business needs and timing.
Completing planned work items on time, including documentation and presenting/demonstrating results to project teams, business stakeholders, and in organizational knowledge sharing sessions.
Cleaning, preprocessing, and transforming raw data into usable formats, ensuring data quality and integrity.
Exploring and experimenting with new data sources, techniques, and algorithms to continuously improve analytical capabilities.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify data-driven opportunities and provide guidance on data collection and storage.
Working independently and guiding more junior resources through standard projects
Identifying long-term technical innovations while continuously improving execution efficiency.
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related role, developing, deploying, and monitoring performance of large analytic data sets and machine learning based models
A Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
Proficiency in programming languages, such as Python or R for data manipulation, analysis, modeling and experience working with cloud platforms like Azure.
Solid understanding of machine learning techniques, algorithms, and libraries.
Preferred hands-on experience developing and deploying models using MLops framework utilizing Databricks /Azure services (Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Power BI) or AWS tools (SageMaker, Glue, EMR) or GCP (Dataflow, Big Query, Cloud Run)
Experience with natural language processing, text analytics, and/or generative AI, including libraries and frameworks such as pandas, nltk, BERTopic, scikit-learn, and LangChain is a plus.
Capable of working with diverse technical teams to produce analytical dataset pipelines and user interfaces
Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) to effectively communicate insights.
Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business questions into data-driven solutions.
Familiarity with data storage solutions, databases, and data processing frameworks.
Excellent communication skills to present findings and collaborate across teams.
Eager to learn and stay up to date with latest/emerging technologies, methods, and trends.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects without sacrificing quality.
Highly collaborative work style.
Ability to evaluate the big picture and provide meaningful business insights and actions.
Additional Job Description
Preferred Qualifications
- Ph.D. degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, Warren, Milford or Mountain View], you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
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About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Benefits Overview
The goal of the General Motors total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan incudes, the following benefits, in addition to many others:
• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents;
• Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family;
• Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement;
• Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values;
• Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing;
• Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.
Diversity Information
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statements
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