Senior Data Scientist

Capgemini • New York, NY

14d • $120,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong grasp of the Software Development Life Cycle and version control.
• Strong proficiency in modern Python. Hands-on experience deploying and operating services in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Practical experience integrating LLMs into software applications. You must understand how to interact with inferencing endpoints, manage context windows, and parse AI-generated content.
• Applied experience with Terraform or similar IAC tools to manage cloud resources.
• A strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Experience working in an agile environment with rigorous code-review standards.
• Expert experience, understanding and knowledge of digital and broadcast production operations and workflows
• Strong knowledge of AI industry trends and best practices
• Strong experience with the C4 model and other traditional design artifacts
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with continuous integration practices
• BS in CS, EE or equivalent experience required

Responsibilities

• Applies extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design matters.
• Works on issues that impact program success or addresses future concepts and products. Implementation of solutions requires a longer-term view which impacts strategic goals and objectives spanning several functions.
• Exercise a wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
• Knowledge with broadcast production or video content management systems
• Knowledge of media management strategies and distribution workflows
• Lead and contributes to development of company objectives across and principles to achieve goals
• Deep understanding of AWS/Azure services and products
• Provide feasibility reviews for potential new projects, including development effort estimates
• Strong understanding of the C4 model and traditional design artifacts
• Work with Engineering and Quality Assurance to identify and address reported issues quickly and effectively
• Build and maintain scalable backend microservices using Python and FastAPI, deployed as varying serverless infrastructure.
• Develop tools, constraints (guardrails), and deterministic functions that our AI agents use to edit visual assets. Integrate models on owned infrastructure for inference and integrate third-party AI endpoints.
• Implement complex distributed workflows for high-volume job orchestration and dispatching (e.g. EventBridge, queues, DynamoDB streams).
• Terraform contributions to provision and mange cloud resources safely and effectively across multiple environments.
• Contribute to our modern backend orchestration or modern web frontends.
• Write robust unit and end-to-end tests to ensure the stability of both standard APIs and AI agent outputs, ensuring smooth deployments.

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED