American Airlines · 11 months ago
Data Scientist/Sr Data Scientist, Technical Operations
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
2+ years expAmerican Airlines is an airline company that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to apply machine learning and statistical techniques to address complex challenges within the Technical Operations Division, focusing on maintenance and safety of aircraft.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with teams across the business to translate their needs or challenges into machine learning or statistical problems
Build predictive forecasting systems to model future performance on known change
Support the development of data products through exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and model building
Explore and create new datasets, identify key features, and identify new ones to be used in modeling. Datasets includes subject areas such as maintenance discrepancies, production bill of work, airline flight schedules, parts and tooling inventory, aircraft out of service, productivity, etc
Effectively communicate complex experiments, models, and analytics outputs with partners in simple and actionable way
Able to communicate the analysis directly with leaders at the airports and within Technical Operations group. Analysis may include flight dispatch reliability, productive aircraft scheduling, execution of routine maintenance, operational performance, etc
Design and manage feature-based datasets in Azure for streamline ML & AI
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Master's/PhD degree or Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of equivalent practical experience in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering, etc.)
Experience with at least one programming language (e.g., SQL, Python, R, Java), software engineering best practices (including testing and version control), and machine learning libraries
Practical experience with data extraction, cleaning, and analysis
Deep knowledge of statistical and machine learning techniques
Demonstrated aptitude for logical analysis, problem identification, and problem solving
Ability to view data from different angles to employ feature engineering techniques to better represent models
Ability to work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of coworkers
Ability to solve complex problems and puzzles in a constrained and dynamic environment
Ability to leverage understanding of the airline business and commercial goals to drive results and innovative solutions
Ability to be adaptive to new ideas and business processes in an ever-changing marketplace
Ability to challenge self and team to develop future-oriented network strategies
Ability to communicate and collaborate, work with cross-functional groups to drive outcomes which benefit the entire airline
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
Skilled at sharing knowledge to develop the expertise of the team as a whole
Preferred
Experience with SQL and data visualization
Practical experience designing, building and deploying machine learning models
Experience working in a consulting role
Domain knowledge in the airline industry is a plus
Familiarity with deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, recommender systems, experimentation (e.g., A/B testing) is a plus
Experience in using cloud platforms and parallel processing is a plus
Experience applying various data science techniques such as: Forecasting, Recommendation Systems, A/B Testing, Logistics Optimization, Churn Analysis, Segmentation Analysis, and Deep Learning
Experience using Databricks, PySpark / Spark, Snowflake, dbt, Azure Cloud
Benefits
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Company
American Airlines
American Airlines is an airline company that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, including narrow-body and wide-body jets. It is a sub-organization of American Airlines.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1B2023-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2023-02-08Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2015-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Doug Parker
Chairman and former CEO at American Airlines
David Seymour
Chief Operating Officer
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