Applied Data Scientist

GAINSystems • Atlanta, GA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Applied Data Scientist on the Applied Research Group at GAINS, you will research, design, build, and deploy production ML models that directly improve supply chain outcomes for enterprise customers. This is a hybrid role that spans the full ML lifecycle—from exploratory analysis and model development through production deployment and ongoing performance tuning. Your work will address core supply chain problems where machine learning delivers measurable business value.
On any given week, you might be designing a new feature engineering approach, running experiments to evaluate alternative modeling techniques, debugging model drift for a specific customer, or building pipeline infrastructure to operationalize a new ML capability. You will collaborate closely with product managers, professional services, software engineers, and customer-facing teams to translate complex supply chain challenges into well-scoped ML solutions.
This is a hands-on IC role with high autonomy and direct impact on customer outcomes and revenue. You will own ML projects end-to-end—the science and the engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years hands-on experience in applied machine learning or data science roles, with models developed and deployed to production
• Strong Python skills with experience writing clean, maintainable, production-grade ML code
• 3+ years professional SQL experience, including complex queries against large enterprise datasets
• Deep understanding of statistical and machine learning methods: gradient boosting (LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost), regression, decision trees, clustering, time series techniques, and model evaluation methodology
• Experience with feature engineering for structured and tabular data, including domain-informed feature design, temporal feature construction, and feature selection techniques
• Demonstrated ability to design experiments, evaluate model performance rigorously, and iterate on approaches based on empirical results
• Experience building and maintaining ML pipelines—data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment
• Working knowledge of cloud-based ML infrastructure (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain model behavior, experimental results, and trade-offs to non-technical audiences
• Self-directed with a track record of owning ML projects end-to-end—from problem formulation through production delivery—with minimal supervision

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical field
• Experience in supply chain, operations, or logistics domains
• Background in time series modeling, probabilistic methods, or optimization techniques applied to operational problems
• Familiarity with Databricks, Spark, or similar distributed compute platforms for ML workloads
• Experience with Azure services: Azure ML, Container Apps, App Configuration, DevOps pipelines
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers to tune, validate, and explain model outputs in their specific business context
• Experience with MLflow for experiment tracking and model versioning
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming platforms for real-time data integration
• Curiosity about the business processes your models serve and motivation to understand how supply chain decisions are actually made

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop machine learning models for supply chain applications that drive measurable improvements in operational efficiency and planning accuracy
• Perform exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, and feature engineering on large, complex supply chain datasets to identify signals and improve model performance
• Design and run experiments to evaluate new modeling approaches, loss functions, feature sets, and hyperparameter configurations—interpreting results and translating findings into production improvements
• Build and maintain robust ML pipelines that process, clean, and transform data from enterprise supply chain systems (SQL databases, APIs, ERP integrations)
• Deploy and maintain models in cloud-based production environments, managing the full lifecycle from training through inference and monitoring
• Implement model evaluation, drift detection, and monitoring frameworks to ensure reliability across diverse customer environments
• Diagnose and resolve model performance issues for individual customers—investigating data quality, feature behavior, and distributional shifts
• Partner with product managers, professional services, and engineering teams to understand customer problems and scope ML solutions appropriately
• Communicate findings, model behavior, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Contribute to the team’s technical direction on ML methodology, architecture, tooling, and best practices

Benefits

• Work on software that leverages AI and ML to solve real logistics challenges for customers
• Direct impact on developer experience across the entire engineering org
• Collaborative, low-bureaucracy environment where engineers own their work end-to-end
• Competitive compensation and benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level