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  • Work Type: Remote

Data Scientist

Job ID
59137
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The Senior Data Scientist will design and implement advanced systems that support cross-domain manufacturing analytics. This role operates at the intersection of optimization, enterprise data integration, and applied analytics to enable data-driven decision-making across complex business workflows.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing and maintaining Python-based optimization models to support demand elasticity, production planning, and constraint-based decision frameworks.

  • Integrating heterogeneous enterprise datasets into structured, analysis-ready pipelines using BigQuery, GCS, and Python.

  • Performing data reconciliation, fuzzy matching, and standardization across inconsistent source systems to ensure data quality and analytical integrity.

  • Designing and deploying lightweight internal applications (e.g., Dash-based tools) and contributing to containerized deployments to enable business-facing access to decision models.

  • Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business questions into optimization and analytical frameworks.

In addition, this role will contribute to the development of semantically aligned data structures by supporting feature definition consistency, cross-system mapping, and ontology-informed modeling approaches. The candidate will help ensure that analytical outputs are built on clearly defined entities, relationships, and assumptions to enable scalable reasoning and reuse across domains.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical modeling capability with practical enterprise data engineering experience and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.

  • Design, develop, and maintain Python-based optimization models to support demand elasticity, production planning, and constraint-based decision systems.

  • Translate complex business problems into structured analytical and optimization frameworks.

  • Build and maintain data pipelines using BigQuery, GCS, and Python to integrate heterogeneous enterprise data sources.

  • Perform data reconciliation, fuzzy matching, and standardization across inconsistent datasets to ensure analytical integrity.

  • Develop lightweight internal applications (e.g., Dash or streamlit) to operationalize analytical outputs for business users.

  • Contribute to containerized deployments to support scalable and maintainable delivery of decision tools.

  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements and validate outputs.

  • Support semantic alignment across systems by contributing to feature definition consistency, cross-system mapping, and ontology-informed data structures.

  • Document modeling assumptions, data transformations, and system dependencies to enable reproducibility and reuse.

  • Continuously improve model performance, data quality, and deployment efficiency across decision systems.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, or equivalent field.

  • 3+ years of experience developing analytical or optimization models in Python.

  • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines using SQL and cloud-based data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, GCS).

  • Strong proficiency in Python for data analysis and modeling (e.g., pandas, NumPy, Pyomo or similar optimization libraries).

  • Experience integrating and standardizing heterogeneous enterprise datasets.

  • Familiarity with containerization concepts (e.g., Docker) and deploying lightweight applications or services in a cloud environment.

  • Ability to translate business problems into structured analytical frameworks.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience working cross-functionally.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary
This role is remote but if you live within 50 miles within Dearborn, MI, you will be required on-site 4x a week.
*Visa Sponsorship IS provided for this specific role*
*Relocation assistance IS provided for this specific role*
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
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