Data Scientist

Oden Technologies

23d•$95,000 - $155,000

About The Position

As a Manufacturing AI company, Oden is at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution, applying real-time applications that combine process and context data with advanced ML and AI algorithms to improve manufacturing efficiency and productivity. The Oden platform enables manufacturing operations teams to continuously monitor, analyze, and optimize their production. The company's goal is to maximize efficiency, sustainability, and competitiveness in manufacturing. Oden fosters a culture that obsesses over customers, moves fast, and elevates each other. The company values transparency, scientific thinking, and urgency, encouraging direct feedback and high standards. "Be True Makers to Serve True Makers" is a guiding principle, promoting innovation and the pursuit of bold, simple solutions. As a Data Scientist on the Customer Solutions team, you will build models and algorithms that transform customer manufacturing data into actionable insights, such as predictive quality models, machine failure prediction, and time-series pattern discovery. Your work will directly impact real-time solutions deployed with customers and contribute to Oden's core product roadmap. You will analyze real-time process measurements, external context data, and outcomes like quality, cost, and yield, leveraging data science, machine learning, and statistics. An AI-first mindset is crucial, including working with agentic AI models and frameworks for natural language interaction with data and results, and extending Oden's Agentic Root Cause Analysis methodology. You will collaborate closely with Customer Success, Product, and customers to define problems, conduct trials, and deliver solutions through the Oden platform, managing projects end-to-end from concept to deployment and serving as a liaison between Oden's technical team and customer stakeholders.

Requirements

1-3 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or ML Engineer
B.S. or M.S. in Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Economics, or a related field
Strong Python skills, including common ML and statistics libraries
Strong SQL skills
Familiarity with process improvement and exploratory techniques (design of experiments, optimization)
Hands-on familiarity with generative AI models, for code development, experimentation, and generating insights for customers and end users on the Oden platform
Comfort directing frontier AI models and AI agents as tools you steer, not magic you wait on
A drive to own projects end-to-end, from first experiment to customer delivery

Responsibilities

Work directly with Oden customers to scope data analysis and modeling needs for real manufacturing problems
Develop and validate models, algorithms, and methods delivered through the Oden platform
Validate results in live, real-world customer deployments
Partner with engineering to implement and ship solutions
Generalize one-off solutions into the next generation of product features
Work with Product to translate customer problems into roadmap requirements
Engage with the technical community: share results externally, stay current on the field, and help advance the state of the art