What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Data Scientist position at Flexton Inc.?
Greetings:
Hi, this is Mounika with Flexton, I have an amazing opportunity with one of our best clients in the Bay Area! Please have a look at JD below and drop your resume to mounikar@flextoninc.com or (408) 333-9240 if interested in applying!!
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Role: Staff Data Scientist
Location: Bentonville(2- 3 days hybrid)About the role
What you'll do
- Build optimization and forecasting solutions for workforce planning, labor scheduling and day-of labor orchestration.
- Take a problem from rough idea to working prototype quickly, then shape it into a business case with clear ROI.
- Build AI agents and LLM- or VLM-based workflows for operational use cases.
- Turn data and high-level assumptions into recommendations that leadership can act on.
- Work with business leaders, engineering and research scientists to move prototypes toward production.
What you bring
- 8 years in applied data science or operations research.
- Strong optimization and modeling skills: linear and mixed-integer programming, simulation, and forecasting, including probabilistic forecasting.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents or LLM applications.
- Production-quality Python and SQL that goes beyond notebooks.
- Business sense: you can frame problems, build business cases and present to executives.
- You've worked in fast-paced settings where you had to deliver results quickly.
Strong pluses
- Workforce or labor planning experience in any industry, such as retail, healthcare, manufacturing or logistics.
- Experience with both operational, day-of decision-making and strategy work.
Exposure to supply chain, inventory or warehouse operations
Thanks
Mounika Ravi
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Cell | (408) 333-9240
Email: mounikar@flextoninc.com