Sr. Data Scientist
Irving, TX

Job Description

Overview

▶Who we are

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. "Brain Freeze" is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 67,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there's a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It's what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.

▶How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

Be Customer Obsessed Be Courageous with Your Point of View Challenge the Status Quo Act Like an Entrepreneur Have an "It Can Be Done" Attitude Do the Right Thing Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

▶About This Opportunity

Responsibilities

At 7-Eleven, we are redefining convenience stores using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our AI engines are powering our automated inventory management, personalized offers, member loyalty programs, delivery programs, chatbots, and various data-driven business insights for our business and partners.

We are looking for multiple Data Scientists/Machine Learning Engineers who want to join our exciting journeys ahead. You will be working with a team of industry leading data scientists and engineers. You will be exposed to immense datasets and gain deep and end-to-end experience of AI products and their business use cases. You will be able to work on many different types of problem ranging from marketing to order fulfillment, and apply techniques from statistical analysis to deep learning.

Soft skill:

* A quick and enthusiastic learner.
* Strong ownership.
* Self-motivated.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills.
* Skillful of approaching open ended business problems.
* Strong data acumen.

Qualifications

Basic technical background:

* Graduate level statistic background.
* Graduate level knowledge in machine learning theories.
* More than 3 years industry experiences in machine learning.
* Intermediate level skills in Python and SQL.
* Intermediate level version control and software development principles. Sharing a Github repo with us is one of the best way to show case your skill in this area.
* Experience in advance analytics, large scale and complicated database and comprehensive data wrangling.

Strongly preferred technical background:

* We are looking for an outstanding statistician/mathematician with machine learning background.
* Statistics Ph.D. with machine learning related projects/publications is strongly preferred.
* Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
* Experience with big data.
* Experience in Deep Learning.