Data and Research Scientist

$104,000 - $128,960/Yr

Branex - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Austin, TX

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About the position

The Data and Research Scientist position is a full-time contract role based in Austin, TX, focusing on providing analytical solutions to support the Cadillac Global Strategy & Operations Team. The role emphasizes innovation and analytics, requiring strong technical skills in data science, statistics, and communication to drive business outcomes through data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

• Work as an integral member within the Cadillac Global Strategy & Operations Team, focusing on innovation and analytics.
• Develop analytical solutions to address and improve KPIs and business results.
• Leverage data mining, predictive modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques to enhance insights and performance optimization.
• Perform in-depth analysis and design search patterns for data mining and reduction.
• Mentor junior researchers and data scientists to enhance their analytical skills.
• Continuously update knowledge on the latest software and hardware innovations and ideate on their application.
• Establish strong working relationships with interdisciplinary teams including Enterprise Data and Analytics and IT.
• Drive the acquisition of new data and refine existing datasets to ensure quality and relevance.
• Create best practices for research instrumentation and experimentation and share with peer teams.
• Develop analytics to support complex event processing and real-time data analysis in big data contexts.
• Serve as an expert in predictive and prescriptive analytics, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Use structured approaches for communicating data insights through data storytelling.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience using data to solve problems, hypothesis testing, and creating visualizations and storytelling to address business problems.
• 8+ years of experience in data architecture and database management.
• 8+ years of professional development experience.
• Solid experience with Big Data technologies in Data Bricks platform using Python/R.
• Master's degree in STEM fields required; Ph.D. in STEM fields preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the auto industry is preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience in Robotics is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly pay ranging from $50 to $62.
• Full-time contract position with a structured 8-hour shift from Monday to Friday.