[Hiring] Principal Data Scientist @Shree Narayani Networking Solutions

Role Description

Seeking a senior, hands-on Principal Data Scientist with deep experience in demand forecasting within large-scale manufacturing environments. This role will support the design and development of an advanced forecasting solution that integrates data from multiple enterprise sources to determine finished-product production requirements by product/model.

The ideal candidate combines strong manufacturing forecasting expertise with advanced data science, AI/ML, solution design, and hands-on prototyping skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and translate business forecasting requirements into technical designs and solutions
• Design forecasting models focused on finished products and product/model-level production requirements
• Integrate and analyze data from multiple enterprise sources, such as SAP, Salesforce, multiple ERP/CRM points
• Apply statistical forecasting, machine learning and AI techniques to improve forecast accuracy and capabilities
• Design and build functional prototypes from initial requirements through testing
• Perform hands-on development, validation and unit testing
• Leverage Generative AI/LLM technologies where applicable, including MCP and RAG
• Integrate enterprise data with LLM-based applications and forecasting solutions
• Communicate designs, findings and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in data science, forecasting, advanced analytics, AI/ML and related disciplines
• Significant hands-on experience designing and developing demand forecasting solutions
• High-tech manufacturing or consumer technology product experience (think: handheld telecom manufacturing devices, such as: apple, tmo, etc.)
• Strong manufacturing experience with an emphasis on finished-goods/product forecasting
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments
• Strong knowledge of demand forecasting, production planning and related supply-chain processes
• Advanced statistical modeling, machine learning and predictive analytics experience
• Experience working with SAP and data from multiple enterprise systems
• Ability to independently assess requirements and develop technical solution designs
• Strong hands-on development, prototyping, testing and unit-testing experience
• Strong business and technical communication skills

Highly Preferred

• AI/ML-based demand or production forecasting experience
• Generative AI and LLM application development experience
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) experience
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) experience
• Experience integrating enterprise data sources with LLMs
• Experience with model training, fine-tuning and/or grounding

Ideal Candidate

A senior practitioner who developed deep forecasting expertise within a sophisticated, large-scale manufacturing organization and can operate across business requirements, solution architecture and hands-on development. This is not a purely advisory role. The successful candidate must be able to understand the forecasting problem, design the solution, build a working prototype, and test the solution independently.

Mandatory Submission Requirements

• First and Last name as it appears on your passport
• Anything we should know about you for presentation (this is your sales pitch)
• Reason you are looking for a change (detailed explanation)
• Comm skills (1-10)
• US Work Status
• Resume in MS Word
• Education and pertinent certs - degree, year, university
• Availability to start (remote)
• Hourly rate, all-inclusive (1099 or C2C only at this time)
• Email and phone number
• LinkedIn Profile (must have Professional headshot -no banner)
• Current location (city & state)
• TEAMS/video interview availability (PST timings)
• Two Professional MANAGER references with:
  • Full name
  • Phone number
  • Professional email
  • Project name
  • Reporting relationship / work performed together

Please submit with the following CV (resume) updates. This is a company-wide policy, and so, partner-wide, release and requirement. We do not have the bandwidth for these lengthy (word vomit) resumes.

• Moving forward we need ALL resumes: 1-2-3 (3 pages max - 3 pages if they are for a senior leadership role, such as this Principal DS role for example)
• Summary needs to be 1-2 sentences max
• Each project or client should be 4-6 bullet points max
• Edu at bottom
• Then certs
• Tech skills below that
• In this order: One name first and last, on top (not 3, 4, 5 names - in Corbel 14)
• All following in Corbel 10
• Custom margins: .4, .4, .4 (top, bottom, left) & .2 (on right)

That's it! Please see sample CV attached.

We need to send 2-3 resumes on this. This is a RE-newed customer and they are giving us a chance to show them "what's up".

• 15+ years of experience
• A Business driver, not a typical forecasting DS
• A hardcore mover and shaker...