Data Scientist

Full time

Employment Information

Job levelMedium level

IndustryTechnology Information and Internet

Experience3+ years

LocationAustin, TX, United States

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What to Expect

We’re the New Product Introduction Team at the one of the world’s largest manufacturing facilities located in Austin, TX. This small but fast-growing central team helps coordinate cross functional teams to leverage the data we collect. We help product and process engineers through direct support by doing data analysis and understanding how they need to align on managing change.

We’re looking for a talented individual to join us in providing leadership in the definition and implementation of processes and tools to enable data science at Tesla. Your work will affect Tesla engineers and production teams daily, the profitability of the company, as well as improve the functionality of products we produce now and in the future. In this position, you will be responsible for retrieving, analyzing, and summarizing results to share with cross-functional teams.

As a data scientist on the New Product Introduction team, you will be responsible for architecting and designing the data interactions and dashboarding, that prevents errors from occurring as we manage change to drive improvements in our world class products. We are looking for a leader who is goal-oriented, results driven, and data-centric.

Data is deeply embedded in the product engineering and manufacturing culture at Tesla. We rely on data – lots of it – to improve, to optimize, to proactively detect, to allow the right decisions to be made, at the right time.

What You’ll Do

Build robust, flexible, and automated software tools to enable complex analysis of real-time data
Answer complex questions on change impact to manufacturing
Cross communicate information from multiple data storage locations
Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and IT teams
Contribute to the automation and standardization of our data pipelines
Build visualizations to effectively communicate
Analyze and determine the optimal solutions for change coordination with manufacturing, other Tesla plants, and suppliers (including EBOM, MBOM, etc)
Provide thought leadership in analytics, modeling, and drive to promote team’s capability and output. Mentor team members and collaborate internally and externally to solve business problems
Develop and program manage implementation of solutions and business processes that are optimized for speed, accuracy, cost efficiency, capacity, and flexibility
Develop decision support systems, tools, and models that are scalable and reproducible to assist in strategizing growth and decision making for Tesla
Work with stakeholders to take a vague problem statement, refine the scope of the analysis, and use the results to drive informed decisions
Summarize and clearly communicate data analysis assumptions and results
Build data pipelines to promote your ad-hoc data analyses into production dashboards that engineers can rely on
Design and implement metrics, applications and tools that will enable engineers by allowing them to self-serve their data insights
Work with engineers to drive usage of your applications and tools
Write clean and tested code that can be maintained and extended by other software engineers
Operate and support your production applications
Keep up to date on relevant technologies and frameworks, and propose new ones that the team could leverage
Identify trends, invent new ways of looking at data, and get creative in order to drive improvements in both existing and future products

What You’ll Bring

Bachelor’s degree or higher in quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering) or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
Strong knowledge of data structures, architectures, and languages such as SQL
Experience and interest in data visualization techniques
Ability to problem solve and adjust priorities with little advance notice to meet deadlines
Strong verbal and written communication skills
3-5 years of experience in data design and dashboard development
Experience with statistical software (R), database languages (SQL), simulation tools (ARENA, AnyLogic, FlexSim), data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, d3.js)
Ability to thrive in a fast-moving and constantly evolving high growth environment
Comfortable in an environment with unstructured, incomplete, and ambiguous data
Strong foundation in statistics
Experience building data visualizations
Experience writing software in a professional environment
Curious and driven to solve complex problems
Smart but humble, with a bias for action
Strong engineering skills and proven track record of exceptional ability (i.e. you personally solved difficult problems that moved the needle on meaningful projects)
Some familiarity with deep learning fundamentals; experience training for neural networks and analyzing results

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
LGBTQ+ care concierge services
401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
Tesla Babies program
Commuter benefits
Employee discounts and perks program

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