Senior Data Scientist – Manufacturing Intelligence, Machine Learning & AI

Overview

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At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Remote

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help build advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI solutions for manufacturing operations.

This role will focus on using factory data to detect anomalies, improve quality, reduce downtime, optimize throughput, and support reusable data models that connect fragmented manufacturing systems into a common intelligence layer.

The ideal candidate has strong applied machine learning skills, practical experience working with complex operational data, and the ability to partner with manufacturing, data engineering, platform, and software teams to move analytical solutions toward production.

This is not a pure research role. We are looking for someone who can move from problem framing to data understanding, model development, validation, stakeholder alignment, and production support. The candidate should be able to learn unfamiliar domains quickly, challenge assumptions constructively, and push back when requirements, data quality, or model expectations are not realistic.

Manufacturing experience is strongly preferred, but we are also open to candidates from adjacent industrial, operations, quality, aerospace, semiconductor, supply chain, or equipment-heavy environments who can learn the manufacturing domain quickly.

Summary of Data Science Work in a Manufacturing Environment

A Data Scientist in manufacturing works at the intersection of factory operations, engineering, quality, maintenance, data platforms, and machine learning.

The work is not only about building models. It includes understanding how the plant operates, identifying where data is generated, defining what “normal” and “abnormal” look like, creating reliab...