Senior Data Scientist

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Job Opportunity:
Caterpillar is expanding its operations and opening a new branch in Slovakia. We are seeking talented individuals to join our team to help us establish and grow our presence, organization, culture, which will drive our digital product development efforts. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with top professionals working on very high impact and visibility products. Don't miss this chance to join a newly forming presence and support digital innovation for a global leader in heavy machinery!

What will you do?
Cat Digital’s Advanced Data Quality team is looking for a talented and motived Senior Data Scientist to help improve platform data quality by defining and implementing quality metrics, performing root cause analysis of data quality problems, and developing algorithms as well as ML/AI models to address the most challenging data quality issues. In this role, you will apply machine learning and other analytics techniques on a very large set of diverse data from IoT connected assets and our integrated network of dealers. You will also use analytics and visualization methods to solve problems for Caterpillar internal customers. Top candidates will have prior experience in developing ML/AI solutions and business intelligence, be proficient in SQL and Python, have experience with cloud computing and dashboard design. Additionally, top candidates will have a strong working knowledge of LLM’s and their uses such as RAG patterns, fine tuning, knowledge graphs and others.

• Use analytics methods to make recommendations to Designers, Product Owners and Managers
• Work independently without close supervision on medium to high complexity projects
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Mentor and assist data scientists, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Guide the team to develop a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.

This position works directly with Slovakia based engineering leadership and Caterpillar in the US.

At Cat Digital, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, and we believe in investing in the development of our employees. As a member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as very competitive compensation and benefits packages, like:

• 3 600+ euros / month gross
• Performance related annual cash incentive
• Industry leading Pension plan
• 5 days of extra vacation above the legislative requirement
• Attractive Life insurance
• Recreation Allowance
• Multisport Card

Take the chance to apply now for this position at newly forming Cat Digital Slovakia branch!

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