Data Scientist

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we love celebrating our wins big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

About The Role

We are seeking a versatileData Scientist to join the Functional Analytics core mission of our team is to design and develop new functional analytic capabilities orenginesthat integrate directly into Anaplan Applications to solve complex enterprise business problems.

In this role you will develop best-in-class ML models and pipelines to drive automated actionable insights at scale. Beyond core development you will act as a key technical partner for our customers. You will play a highly visible role in driving customer onboardings getting hands-on with client data to customize and fine-tune our MLenginesso they seamlessly adapt to complex business realities and specific customer needs.

Your Impact

• Customer Onboarding & Engine Customization: Lead the technical deployment of our engines for new clients. Partner closely with customers Customer Success Product and Engineering to adapt and customize ML models ensuring they accurately reflect client-specific business logic operational guardrails and unique data nuances.
• Analytic Engine Development: Design and develop scalable functional analytic capabilities that seamlessly integrate into Anaplan Applications translating raw customer data into automated high-value business insights.
• Advanced Modeling & Timeseries Forecasting: Design train and implement robust Machine Learning (LightGBM XGBoost) and Deep Learning (PyTorch) models specifically focused on complex demand sensing and resolving cold-start forecasting problems.
• Feature Engineering Pipelines: Build and optimize scalable data pipelines leveraging a hybrid SQL/Python architecture (dbt Snowflake) to extract rich localized temporal signals from high-volume transactional retail data.
• End-to-End Deployment (MLOps): Partner with our engineers to transition your models from prototype into scalable monitored and reliable production pipelines using tools like MLflow and Optuna.

Your Skills

• Strong hands-on professional experiencein Data Science successfully buildingand deployingsystems from prototype to production in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong predictive modeling foundation: Extensive experience with traditional ML algorithms Deep Learning frameworks and complex time-series forecasting.
• Experience developing production-grade Python code: High proficiency in Python Pandas and modern software practices (testing clean code code review CI/CD).
• Data & Pipeline Expertise: Hands-on experience optimizing data models and access patterns for modern data warehouses (Snowflake Databricks) utilizing SQL and transformation tools like dbt.
• Cloud & Data Infrastructure: Experience working with scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or Azure) and handling columnar data formats like Parquet.
• MLOps Exposure: Experience with tools and frameworks for training tracking deploying and monitoring models in production (e.g. MLflow Optuna Prefect or Airflow).

Desirable

• Background in supply chainforecasting enterprise AI or retail analytics
• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Statistics Data Science or a related quantitative field.

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We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce enhances trust with our partners and customers and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity equity inclusion and belonging arent just words on paper this is what drives our innovation its how we connect and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued regardless of gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion ethnicity age neurodiversity disability status citizenship or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!

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