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Your Title: Data Engineer/Scientist
Job Location: [US]
Are you an enthusiastic and self-motivated Data Engineer / Scientist eager to contribute your expertise to our dynamic and innovative team? Join us in leveraging data to drive meaningful business outcomes and contribute to the success of Trimble's data-driven initiatives.
What You Will Do
Unleash your potential as a Trimble Data Engineer and Scientist! Working closely with your manager and team, you will leverage your expertise to drive impactful business outcomes, particularly in understanding and improving customer retention for SketchUp. Your path to impactful action starts here:
- Design, develop, and program methods, processes, and systems to deploy ML models (e.g., logistic regression, XGBoost) to predict churn risk for SketchUp's diverse customer base.
- Generate actionable insights and solutions by translating complex model outputs into business-friendly insights for targeted retention strategies.
- Collaborate with product and go-to-market teams to engineer impactful features from raw customer data, developing metrics for tracking engagement and activity facilitating better understanding of customer behavior.
- Develop software programs, algorithms, and automated processes to cleanse, integrate, and evaluate datasets for customer segmentation, ML model training and evaluation.
- Extract meaningful insights from data and effectively communicate findings to optimize churn prediction models using metrics like AUC and lift.
What Skills & Experience You Should Bring
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s and Ph.D. graduates welcome.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in data science, data engineering or a related field, with demonstrated expertise in building, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models for predictive analytics, particularly in areas like churn prediction.
- Strong critical thinking abilities and the capacity to work autonomously.
- Proficient understanding of key data engineering concepts, such as data lakes, columnar formats, ETL tools, and BI tools, coupled with strong statistical modeling skills for churn analysis and customer segmentation, including cohort analysis and the use of demographic and firmographic data.
- Demonstrated passion and aptitude for problem-solving.
- Proficiency in Python & SQL - other languages a benefit.
- Effective collaboration skills within a team environment.
About Trimble
Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit:
www.trimble.com
About Your Location
Hybrid location verbiage: Under a flexible work arrangement (hybrid), this resource primarily supports the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Owners (“AECO”) Segment and works collaboratively more widely.
In a hybrid role, you will work with your manager and team lead to establish a mutually agreeable schedule for your time working in the office based on the position and the business need. Typically hybrid positions are 1-3 days per week, or 20%-60% of the month in the office.
About Our Business
Trimble SketchUp is the most widely used 3D design environment in the world - delighting architects, interior designers, construction companies, woodworkers and hobbyists around the world. With more than a million subscribers - and many more users of our free offerings - being part of SketchUp is being part of a movement.
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We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.
We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.
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Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.
Posting Date
10/10/2025Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.
At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at
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, under “Corporate Governance.”
Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.
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