# Senior Applied Data Scientist

**Company**: Flexport
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Logistics

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## Description

Flexport is looking for a Senior Applied Data Scientist to develop first-in-class science products to make fulfillment easy and efficient for merchants.

The role focuses on building automated decision-making processes that ensure merchants' expectations for fulfillment speed and reliability are met or exceeded, while growing the network in a cost-efficient way.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop models and algorithms to enable and improve the service of the fulfillment network, including optimal inventory management and reliable delivery service

- Collaborate with business/product teams to reduce fulfillment network variable costs by identifying cost-saving opportunities and finding proper solutions

- Contribute to projects that measurably impact business goals, translating business needs to actionable development plans and executing them successfully

- Work cross-functionally across Data Science, Engineering, Product, Planning, and Operations to implement production processes and reporting to achieve desired KPIs

- Contribute to data science and analytics best practices for the team and across the organization

Requirements:

- A degree in a quantitative field like Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Econometrics, etc.

- 5+ years of industry experience in solving optimization and/or machine learning problems and developing practically efficient, automated solutions

- Experience developing, enhancing, and maintaining end-to-end data science production processes, including data modeling, algorithm development, testing, and metric tracking

- Software engineering experience to build software to solve real industrial problems, with a strong understanding of system architecture

- Proficient with frontier AI models to proactively identify opportunities for business growth and operational cost savings

- Proficient with Python and SQL. Experience with Snowflake, dbt, data visualization/reporting tools (e.g., Looker) preferred

- A 'compliance first' attitude to keep regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Machine Learning
- Operations Research
- Data Science

### Nice to have
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Looker

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