Director, Data Science

Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometrys digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.

We need a strong data scientist leader to manage our ML & data science research & development and evolve the services that make up the backbone of Xometrys business. The successful candidate will bring experience as a data scientist and machine learning leader working for a company where AI is considered core to the companys success. They should have experience bringing new ML models to the market as part of an online platform. They should be comfortable leading a technical team working with product and executive stakeholders with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - particularly when bridging technical and non-technical audiences.

We have a lot of ideas on how we can improve these systems. We need help connecting these ideas to business metrics prioritizing them with input from stakeholders into a roadmap executing efficiently from research to bringing ML models to market and providing proactive communication on the vision/direction and status of the work.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a strategic leader as part of our data science & machine learning team with responsibility for Xometrys pricing strategy
• Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders; set priorities aligned to business goals; communicate analysis strategies timelines and work of the data science & machine learning team and gain buy-in from executive leadership
• Incorporate internal and external feedback to iterate and evolve ML models
• Practice outcome-oriented/KPI-driven team management: Define metrics that lead to business goals and report on the outcomes of your efforts
• Lead complex cross-team projects to deliver on our product & ML strategy with a singular focus on driving business results
• Play a crucial role in exploring new machine learning opportunities researching and performing proof of concepts and bringing new machine learning and AI solutions into Xometrys platform
• Develop and implement machine learning models that improve Xometrys ability to predict cost price and sourcing options for our customers and suppliers.
• Responsible for leading the evaluation of emerging technologies identifying areas for improvement and developing new features while ensuring the reliability and scalability of Xometrys platform
• Lead the exploration of emerging AI and machine learning technologies and develop proof-of-concepts to assess their potential impact on Xometrys platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements prioritize features and define technical solutions based on the latest innovations
• Monitor machine learning models and AI performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise
• Contribute to the documentation and knowledge base to help other teams understand and use Xometrys AI effectively

Qualifications

• 8 years experience developing and implementing machine learning algorithms ideally within an online marketplace
• Excellent understanding of scalable architectures and thrive working in Agile environments
• Recognized expertise in the areas of marketplace optimization and pricing theory
• Ability to apply and implement research concepts ultimately in production quality code
• Experience defining clear testable research hypotheses including intended impact on the business
• Deep knowledge of design of experiments online experimentation approaches at scale
• Ability to formulate and advocate for R&D objectives and results to multi-functional team members including executive business leadership and product management
• Experience with your machine learning models running in a real production environment
• Experience in end-to-end model development and deployment lifecycle i.e. from prototyping to model development and putting models into production
• Strong experience with Python/R forecasting methodologies machine learning and statistics
• Experience with SQL and cloud technologies like Snowflake Google BigQuery Databricks presto etc.
• Strong fluency in Python and SQL experience with Tensorflow PyTorch Airflow and data warehouse
• PhD in a quantitative field (or BS/MS with equivalent work experience)
• Mission-driven positive attitude and ability to motivate others
• Must be a US citizen green card holder or a legal permanent resident of the United States

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