Sr ML Data Scientist

Overview

Here at Discount Tire, we celebrate the spirit of our people with extraordinary pride and enthusiasm. As America’s largest independent tire retailer, specializing in tires & wheels, we have over 1,000 store locations and continue to grow every year. Our consistent growth over the last 60 years, the loyalty of our customers and passion of our people makes Discount Tire a great place to work.

Even more exciting, Discount Tire is predicting, embracing, and driving the changes expected in the Automotive Industry. Leadership believes Data and Analytics are a competitive advantage. As such, we are leveraging an established world class data environment so that this position can help us to solve a wide range of complex business problems. You will lead various AI efforts involving computer vision, and deep learning in addition to other machine learning model builds. In addition, the Senior Data Scientist leads the efforts to analyze and mine very large quantities of data, develops predictive models that solve complex problems, and presents findings to C-Suite executives and other management. This position also partners with additional external AI experts as needed to build our internal R&D capability to have an edge in the analytics industry.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Builds and validates analytics solutions utilizing large scale data from multiple data sources and ensures adoption of the model. Drives continuous improvement to the existing solution.
• Uses machine learning techniques to create data-driven solutions for various business use-cases.
• Writes Python programs utilizing existing libraries and methodologies.
• Understands complex business needs and identifies potential use cases in more than one business unit.
• Identifies data that is necessary to complete the analysis and improve the validity, predictability, and accuracy of models.
• Interprets, communicates, and presents analytic results to C-Level executives and below
• Consistently collaborates with fellow data scientists, external AI experts, and frequently interacts with business partners, project managers, cross-functional teams, key stakeholders, and other domains to build analytics capabilities and drive business value.
• Continually strengthens knowledge of analytical methods, vendors, and tools and shares knowledge by participating in best practice sharing opportunities

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Discount Tire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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