Data Scientist · Ford Motor Company

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:22:48 GMT
Engineering

Ford Motor Company · Dearborn · remote

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.