Sr Data Scientist

T-Mobile T-Mobile · Telecom · Bellevue, WA +1

Senior Data Scientist role focused on applying ML techniques to business problems, covering the full ML lifecycle from problem framing to deployment and performance measurement. The role involves extracting and modeling complex data, delivering insights, mentoring junior team members, and collaborating with engineering teams to implement ML pipelines and production models. Requires experience in predictive modeling, data science, ML deployment, deep learning, and generative AI, with a focus on LLM fine-tuning.

What you'd actually do

  1. Extract and model large, complex data sets using machine learning, mathematics, statistics, and programming to generate predictive insights
  2. Deliver timely, high-quality analysis and actionable recommendations that support intelligent business decision-making
  3. Provide senior-level guidance and mentorship by reviewing projects, models, and code to support team development
  4. Collaborate with engineering teams to implement and enhance machine learning pipelines and production-ready models
  5. Communicate key information and insights to business leaders through verbal, written, and data visualization methods

Skills

Required

  • Industry experience in predictive modeling, data science, and analysis in an ML engineer or data scientist role building and deploying ML models or hands on experience developing deep learning models
  • Experience with data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R)
  • Experience with big data architecture and pipeline, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, etc.
  • Experience articulating and translating business questions and using statistical techniques to arrive at an answer using available data
  • Experience in data visualization
  • Experience working with relational database using SQL
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Insights
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Storytelling
  • Data Visualization
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Bachelor's Degree plus 5 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 3 years of related experience
  • Quantitative Discipline (math, statistics, economics, computer science, physics, engineering, etc.)

Nice to have

  • experience in the telecom industry

What the JD emphasized

  • building and deploying ML models
  • developing deep learning models
  • Generative AI (Required)
  • Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning (Required)

Other signals

  • owning the application of machine learning techniques
  • demonstrate expertise across the entire machine learning (ML) lifecycle
  • building real business value from data
  • implement and enhance machine learning pipelines and production-ready models