Forward Deployed Scientist II
Core
Apply frontier machine learning, optimization, and agentic AI to solve high-stakes commercial problems in demand forecasting, price/promotion optimization, and supply-chain decisioning for major retailers and manufacturers.
Role type
Senior IC applied AI scientist (supply chain & retail)
Builds
Production ML models and optimization solutions for live customer operations
Domain
Supply chain, retail, applied AI, optimization
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning, forecasting, optimization, agentic AI, Python, SQL, stakeholder management, ambiguity navigation
Preferred skills
Agentic/LLM-based systems, building ML in production
Responsibilities
Own customer engagements end-to-end from problem framing to commercial impact; Apply and adapt frontier ML and optimization techniques to non-textbook problems; Translate field learnings into product direction; Operate autonomously across diverse stakeholders; Stay at the edge of applied AI and feed insights back to the team
