Data Scientist (Emerging Careers)

SAS • Cary HQ, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are a leader in data and AI, inspiring customers worldwide to transform data into intelligence and questions into answers. We offer a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, recognized for our inclusive culture and innovative technologies. This role drives solution development, testing, and implementation of SAS customer projects involving artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. You will engage with customers at all levels to drive processes, adoption, and ensure project success. Responsibilities include researching and developing high-quality demos, working closely with a team of SAS experts, and collaborating with R&D and product management to improve SAS solutions based on customer project experience. We seek individuals with a strong passion for solving customer problems, a desire for continuous learning, curiosity, adaptability, authenticity, and accountability. Our team leads the design, development, and implementation of AI models for customers across various industries.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or related quantitative field with at least 3 years of relevant full-time experience.
• Strong research background in computer vision or machine learning model development.
• Experience in using open-source solutions to solve computer vision and machine learning problems.
• Strong coding skills, preferably in Python or SAS.
• Experience in PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to perform in both team and individual environments.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in practical implementations of computer vision projects in industry and communicating directly with customers at different levels.
• Experience in deployment using Nvidia CUDA Toolkit.
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience working on external customer projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development, testing, and implementation of AI-centric SAS models.
• Identify customer use cases and contribute to the model development strategy.
• Partner with our engineering and product management teams to refine SAS model offerings.
• Foster strong collaborations with customers, partners, sales, and pre-sales.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS.
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
• Pharmacy that will ship prescriptions for no additional charge.
• Industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and U.S. Winter Wellness Break.
• Volunteer Time Off.
• Parental leave.
• Unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

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