What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied Data Scientist position at Insight Global?
Title: Applied Data Scientist
Location: Remote with required travel to Plano, TX *1X Per quarter - 4x per year*
Duration: 12 month contract with extensions/permanent placement possible (W2)
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong coding skills in Python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) and SQL.
- Experience with regression, elasticity estimation, clustering, and experimental validation.
- Comfort working with optimization outputs and constraints.
- Ability to wrangle data from cloud-based sources and iterate quickly with stakeholders.
- Ability to speak directly with stakeholders to bring in complex questions, work with existing models, and be able to begin exploratory analysis
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Logistics simulation experience, API-driven optimization tools, and basic MLOps hygiene.
Job Description
A retail client is hiring Applied Data Scientists to join their Profit to Serve (PTS) initiative—a priority program driving scenario modeling and last-mile routing optimization to improve profitability and service. PTS is a foundational enabler in our AI strategy, connecting precision costing with automated insights and routing simulations.
***This group is a financially focused group, looking at cost impacts for logistics and routing. This individual will have to be able to look at things from a cost perspective, and the goal is to improve the existing models to overall improve the accuracy of financial decisions.**
What You’ll Do
- Build and iterate models for cost impact estimation, price elasticity, and routing optimization.
- Design clustering approaches for route/service segmentation and validate optimization assumptions.
- Translate ambiguous business questions into testable models and ship prototypes weekly.
- Collaborate closely with business partners and data science leads to deliver reusable solutions.
- Compensation: $70.00-90.00/HR
Salary : $70 - $90