Data Scientist

Advance Auto Parts • Raleigh, NC

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist with strong expertise in Data Science, machine learning engineering with hands on experience in designing and deploying ML solutions in production. This role focuses on building scalable ML solutions, productionizing models, and enabling robust ML platforms for enterprise-grade deployments. This role is a hybrid work model (4 days in office, 1 day work from home) based out of our corporate headquarters located in Raleigh, NC

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or Mathematics, Statistics or related field.
• 5+ years experience with Python (pandas, PySpark, scikit-learn; familiarity with PyTorch/TensorFlow helpful), bash, experience with Docker.
• Design and implement predictive and prescriptive models for regression, classification, and optimization problems.
• Apply advanced techniques such as structural time series modeling and boosting algorithms (e.g., XGBoost, LightGBM).
• 5+ years experience with SageMaker (training, processing, pipelines, model registry, endpoints) or equivalents (Kubeflow, MLflow/Feast, Vertex, Databricks ML).
• 5+ years’ experience with Databricks DABS or Airflow or Step Functions, e-driven designs with EventBridge/SQS/Kinesis.
• 3+ years experience with AWS/Azure/GCP on various services like ECR/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Glue/Athena/EMR, RDS/Aurora (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, WAF.
• Snowflake Foundations: Warehouses, databases, schemas, stages, Snowflake SQL, RBAC, UDF, Snowpark.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with CodeBuild/Code Pipeline or GitHub Actions/GitLab; blue/green, canary, and shadow deployments for models and services.
• Proven experience with batch/stream pipelines, schema management, partitioning, performance tuning; parquet/iceberg best practices.
• Unit/integration tests for data and models, contract tests for features, reproducible training; data drift/performance monitoring.
• Incident response for model services, SLOs, dashboards, runbooks; strong debugging across data, model, and infra layers.
• Clear communication, collaborative mindset, and a bias to automate & document.

Nice To Haves

• MS Preferred.
• familiarity with PyTorch/TensorFlow helpful
• GCP experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build ML Models: Design and implement predictive and prescriptive models for regression, classification, and optimization problems.
• Apply advanced techniques such as structural time series modeling and boosting algorithms (e.g., XGBoost, LightGBM).
• Train and Tune Models: Develop and tune machine learning models using Python, PySpark, TensorFlow, and PyTorch.
• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into data science solutions and work in the end-to-end solutioning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful integration of models into business processes.
• Monitoring & Visualization: Rapidly prototype and test hypotheses to validate model approaches.
• Build automated workflows for model monitoring and performance evaluation.
• Create dashboards using tools like Databricks and Palantir to visualize key model metrics like model drift, Shapley values etc.
• Productionize ML: Build repeatable paths from experimentation to deployment (batch, streaming, and low-latency endpoints), including feature engineering, training, evaluation,
• Own ML Platform: Stand up and operate core platform components—model registry, feature store, experiment tracking, artifact stores, and standardized CI/CD for ML.
• Pipeline Engineering: Author robust data/ML pipelines (orchestrated with Step Functions / Airflow / Argo) that train, validate, and release models on schedules or events.
• Observability & Quality: Implement end-to-end monitoring, data validation, model/drift checks, and alerting SLA/SLOs.
• Governance & Risk: Enforce model/version lineage, reproducibility, approvals, rollback plans, auditability, and cost controls aligned to enterprise policies.
• Partner & Mentor: Collaborate with on-shore/off-shore teams; coach data scientists on packaging, testing, and performance; contribute to standards and reviews.
• Hands-on Delivery: Prototype new patterns; troubleshoot production issues across data, model, and infrastructure layers.

Benefits

• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
• We comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

What This Job Offers

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