Sr Data Scientist

Why project44?  

At project44, we believe in better.  

We challenge the status quo because we know a better supply chain isn’t just possible—it’s essential. Better for our customers. Better for their business. Better for the world.  

With our Decision Intelligence Platform, Movement, we’re redefining how global supply chains operate. By transforming fragmented logistics data into real-time, AI-powered insights, we empower companies to connect instantly, see clearly, act decisively, and automate intelligently. Our Supply Chain AI enhances visibility, drives smarter execution, and unlocks next-gen applications that keep businesses moving forward.  

Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with a 2nd HQ in Bengaluru, India, we are powered by a diverse global team that is tackling the toughest logistics challenges with innovation, urgency, and purpose. If you’re driven to solve meaningful problems, leverage AI to scale rapidly, drive impact daily, and be part of a high-performance team – we should talk.  

What You’ll Do: 

Project44 is not only making supply chain and logistics datasets available and visible to the people who need it, but enabling actionable insights from that data – and that’s where we come in. Our primary focus is to provide insights to our customers. We use a variety of data sets (geospatial, time-series, etc....) to predict routes a shipment might take, estimate the time a truck/train/ship can take to arrive at its destination, and ultimately model the behavior of every “link” in the global supply “chain”.  Our Data Scientists collaborate with engineers, product owners, and most importantly one another to contribute insights and data science best practices to all parts of the business.  

Typical day-to-day tasks for a Senior Data Scientist might include: 

• Perform analyses to make internal recommendations as to whether data science methods can be used to solve a given problem
• Interpret and communicate analytic results to analytical and non-analytical business partners and executive decision makers
• Research and evaluate new analytical methodologies, approaches, and solutions
• Build, test, and deploy supervised or unsupervised learning models
• Collaborate with teams to analyze the behavior of global transportation networks & supply chains
• Write queries to grab the right set of data to solve problems
• Build tools to enable other data scientists to scale their knowledge and increase impact
• Participate in code reviews and model reviews
• Collaborate with ML Ops Engineers to deploy new models to production
• Mentor junior scientists on the team 

What You'll Need: 

• 7+ years professional experience working in an analytics or DS-focused role
• Ability to write sophisticated data analysis & machine learning code in python
• Thought leadership to take a real-world problem without a clean, pre-existing dataset and solve it
• Experience developing software projects with large teams using technologies like; git, github, jira etc.
• Ability to take a project from ideation to implementation with a high degree of autonomy and out-of-the box thinking 

Nice to Have: 

• Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative or relevant field
• Experience with the transportation and/or freight logistics industry
• Experience writing production code in one or more of: Java, Scala, or Spark using Jupyter Notebooks
• Experience working with IoT systems, ranging from DIY home projects to industrial IoT deployments
• Have made substantive contributions to open-source projects in the areas of data science or machine learning
• Published work in Data Science related journals or conferences such as ICML, NIPS, JML, KDD, ODSC, and INFORMS 

Diversity & Inclusion 

We're designing the future of how the world moves and is connected through trade and global supply chains. We can only deliver a truly world-class product and experience if our teams are as diverse and unique as the communities we are building for. It's up to us to create a company where anyone can bring their authentic self to work every day. We're constantly working to improve, and we accept our responsibility to elevate the voices left in the margins. It's on every one of us. 

Our focus on inclusion manifests in the way we hire, the customers we serve, and the regions we prioritize. We're building a company that every one of us at project44 is proud to work for: a company that celebrates you for being you. 

We pride ourselves on celebrating everyone — project44 is an equal opportunity employer actively working on creating a diverse and inclusive work environment where underrepresented groups can thrive. If you share our values and our passion for helping the way the world moves, we’d love to review your application! 

For any accommodations needed during the hiring process, please email recruiting@project44.com. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet just 50% of the role’s requirements.