Job Title:Data Scientist

Location: Fort Worth , TX

Duration: 12 months 

Bill Rate: $79/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist to join a centralized Machine Learning team supporting multiple business units. This role will focus on taking machine learning models and pipelines from prototype to production, improving existing codebases, optimizing performance, and building scalable ML solutions for the Customer Intelligence CBI productionization initiative.

The ideal candidate will have strong production-grade Python experience, hands-on expertise with the complete machine learning lifecycle, and experience deploying and monitoring models in cloud or Databricks environments

 Required:

• Master’s or PhD degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python programming.
• Experience writing modular, testable, maintainable, and production-grade code.
• Practical experience with data extraction, cleaning, transformation, and analysis.
• Strong understanding of statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Hands-on experience developing and productionizing machine learning pipelines.

 Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in a technical professional environment.
• Experience with Databricks and Spark-based machine learning pipelines.
• Experience deploying machine learning models to production environments.
• Experience with ML orchestration, monitoring, and optimization.
• Knowledge of SQL and experience working with large-scale datasets.
• Experience with ML lifecycle tools such as MLflow, CI/CD pipelines, and model-monitoring platforms.
• Experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with parallel processing and distributed computing.
• Experience creating dashboards or data visualizations using Tableau or Power BI.
• Airline or transportation industry experience.

 Responsibilities:

• Develop, refactor, test, and optimize production-quality Python code for machine learning applications.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain machine learning models and pipelines.
• Productionize ML workflows, including model deployment, orchestration, monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Extract, clean, transform, and analyze large datasets to support business and customer intelligence initiatives.
• Apply statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and feature engineering to improve model performance.
• Work with data scientists, data engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable ML solutions.
• Improve existing codebases, pipelines, and system integrations for reliability, maintainability, and performance.
• Debug technical issues and conduct performance tuning across the ML lifecycle.
• Use cloud platforms and parallel-processing technologies to scale model development and deployment.
• Document technical solutions and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support quality, innovation, scalability, and measurable business or revenue impact across the organization.