Senior Data Scientist

Our Team

Guardian Industries, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is a global leader in glass manufacturing and coated glass products.

The company is dedicated to innovation, sustainability, and delivering high-quality solutions across various industries, including automotive and building products.

Our Advanced Analytics Capability is at the forefront of leveraging data and AI to drive business growth and operational excellence.

We seek a Senior Data Scientist to join our AI and Data Science team to embark on the journey of developing Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI tools to drive business value and enhance operations and commercial outcomes.

Our highly skilled, enthusiastic data scientists are redefining what's possible for Guardian by utilizing the massive amount of process data to transform operations, research, and development.

We invest in our team by encouraging attendance at industry conferences and ongoing education opportunities, enabling them to stay in the dynamic, ever-changing data science landscape and bring new methods and techniques to their projects.

What You Will Do



* Develop a strong understanding of the operations and business processes and identify possible opportunities that add value.


* Apply machine learning algorithms to perform analysis, create predictive models, visualize data, and drive projects through to delivery toward solving operations problems.


* Interact with business and manufacturing SMEs to identify requirements and propose solutions.


* Have the intellectual curiosity to research and identify new modeling technologies/methodologies/software packages to improve the current modeling processes.


* Continuously scan and test new data sources, tools, and analytical techniques and partner with leading institutions and experts to contribute to our portfolio of next-generation analytics projects.


* Analyze large complex time series datasets to extract useful patterns to deliver business insights and communicate results to key decision-makers.


* Issue reports detailing tool development (including unsuccessful approaches), quality assurance actions performed, results, etc.


* Work with data engineers to improve functionality in data systems (e.g., data reliability, efficiency, usability, and quality) and improve downstream data analysis capabilities.


* Rapidly design, prototype, and test many possible hypotheses .

Further, focus on building minimum viable products toward solving most of the issues instead of "perfecting" the solution unless it is critical to safety.


* Leading and working on multiple projects simultaneously and switching priorities as the business needs require.


* Employ visualization, reporting, and other tools to improve how teams access various datasets.


* Strong data-driven storytelling to present to stockholders.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* 5+ years of experience in applying ML to solve complex application ...