
Senior Data Scientist, Supply Chain
- Kolkata, West Bengal
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of OR/AI/ML models tailored to supply chain subject areas such as demand forecasting and sensing, inventory optimization, transportation and logistics routing, supplier risk prediction, production planning and network optimization.
- Develop and deploy generative AI models for supply chain use cases, fine-tuning large pre-trained LLMs, evaluating modeling performance; continuously iterate and optimize the solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functionally with supply chain, engineering, IT, and business solution implementation team to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Partners with solution architect engineer to enable appropriate data flow/data model, development using appropriate tools/technology to ensure rapid prototyping, testing and deployment
- Ensure models are robust, scalable, and production ready with clear monitoring and feedback loops.
- Stay ahead of the curve on related emerging technologies and bring innovative approaches to supply chain optimization
- PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in applied OR/AI/ML roles, with at least 3 years focused on supply chain problems
- Strong expertise in optimization, regression, classification, time series, deep learning.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala or similar
- Strong hands-on knowledge in developing/implementing Operations Research models and Machine Learning models to solve supply chain related problems
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) and cloud platforms such as AWS, Snowflake etc.
- Strong communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Knowledge of core business processes (Supply Chain, Operations) obtained by directly working in these functions is preferred.
- Experience with AI agent solution development
- Familiarity with ERP enterprise supply chain systems like Oracle, SAP