What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Data Scientist - Damages position at Hertz Local Edition?
A Day in the Life:
At Hertz, we are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build the best damage management technologies in the transportation industry. We want the brightest AI & ML minds to join our Damage Science Team to help us develop and/or maintain capabilities to:
- Detect Damage via Machine Vision: Utilize computer vision techniques to accurately detect and assess damage in real-time.
- Rationalize Repair Estimates and Invoices with Large Language Models (LLMs): Implement sophisticated LLMs to make intelligent repair routing decisions, ensuring repairs are conducted efficiently and cost-effectively.
- Forecast Repair Needs: Develop models to predict future repair & maintenance needs based on historical data and trends.
- Automate Quality Assurance: Create models to evaluate the quality of repairs and ensure they meet our high standards.
The starting salary is $130K; commensurate with experience.
What You Will Do:
- Formulate the strategic and tactical steps to carry out the model development lifecycle end-to-end (i.e. problem statement definition, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development / tuning, and model implementation).
- Build and maintain descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models to measure the performance of the new products and services.
- Cross validating production models to ensure high performance and generalizability
- Define and implement best practices to generate accurate analytics, reports, visualizations, and dashboards to explain results simply and succinctly to technical, non-technical, and senior management
- Build partnerships and work cross-functionally to identify use cases and opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and drive business value through positive impact on OKRs.
- Work with an owner mentality to drive business impact even if that means supporting pipeline creation or decision support analytics.
- Serve as a voice on how technological advancements in AI and machine learning may impact our business and the opportunities they may create.
- Provide technical leadership to more junior Data Scientist team members.
What We are Looking For:
- 5-8 years hands-on experience in a data science role
- 5 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)
- 5 years of end-to-end machine learning model development experience (e.g. problem statement definition, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development / tuning, and deployment)
- Demonstrated experience using machine learning to drive a business impact
- Strong experience with statistical analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques
- Experience mentoring and supporting development of more junior scientists
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a technology company
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, economics, or computer science
- Preferred PhD in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, economics, or computer science
What You’ll Get:
- Up to 40% off any standard Hertz Rental
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
- Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
- Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
- Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
- Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
- Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
Salary : $130,000
