General Mills · 7 hours ago
Sr. Data Scientist - Agentic AI (Minneapolis preferred, remote eligible)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$109K/yr - $182K/yr
6+ years expGeneral Mills is a company focused on making food people love, and they are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to apply expertise in machine learning and data mining. The role involves designing and building advanced analytics engines, collaborating with stakeholders, and developing analytical models to support business decision-making.
Food and BeverageFood ProcessingManufacturingSnack FoodWholesale
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Design & implementation of LLM-based agentic AI solutions for semi-structured data, covering problem framing, data curation, and evaluation across classification, entity extraction & summarization
Develop high‑quality Agentic AI and RAG workflows, optimizing ingestion, chunking, embeddings, and vector indexing with established frameworks and stores to maximize retrieval performance
Technically evaluate novel technology to help inform on the best effort/improvement tradeoffs
Quickly learn and iterate with novel technologies/procedures, particularly but not exclusively around generative AI
Implement appropriate generative AI techniques and technologies to solve business problems, including prompt and LLM fine-tuning, RAG, agentic workflows, and tool designs
Help business stakeholders translate their objectives into measurable outcomes
Apply critical thinking to frame business needs into statistical problems and develop solutions that balance technical completeness/complexity and timely value delivery
Be a storyteller to explain the ‘why and how’ of your recommendations to build trust in your solutions
Have passion to advocate and educate on the value and importance of data-driven decision-making and analytical methods
Identify and develop long-term data science processes, frameworks, tools, and standards
Be a part of the team, collaborate, ask questions, engage, and solicit feedback from other Data Scientists
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in data science, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics or other related fields
6+ years of relevant experience with at least 2 years of relevant experience in Data Science
Strong foundation of statistical reasoning and critical thinking, with a proven track record of effectively finding solutions to stakeholder problem statements
Experience with Python, including some exposure to package development and foundational programming principles
Some experience with generative AI concepts, including embeddings, LLMs, agents, and RAG
Experience writing complex SQL queries
Understanding data warehousing and complex databases
Experience with machine learning and data visualization tools
Number sense, ability to identify questionable data, dig in and address it
Strong communication and collaboration skills to understand business needs, frame problems in familiar language (without compromising statistical fidelity), and present solutions that clearly translate to business value
Preferred
Experience developing and deploying Python packages and managing large-scale projects
Experience developing/deploying generative AI technology, including agents, RAG, or similar
Experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar technology
Applied experience in consumer goods/supply chain
Master's degree in data science, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Statistics preferred
Benefits
Foundation of health benefits
Retirement and financial wellbeing
Time off programs
Wellbeing support and perks
Annual incentive program
Company
General Mills
General Mills is a food company that manufactures and markets branded consumer foods.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.7B2024-10-15Post Ipo Debt· $2.7B
1928-11-30IPO
Leadership Team
Asheesh Saksena
Chief Growth Officer
Jacqueline R. Williams Roll
Chief Human Resources Officer
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