Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Science & Machine Learning Engineer

Pay rate: $58 - $64 per hour

Duration: Until October/2026

W2 contract only (No C2C)

Location- Candidates may work onsite (Urbandale, IA/Austin, TX/Champaign, IL) or Remote

Overview

Client is seeking a highly skilled artificial intelligence/machine learning engineer, computer vision or NLP scientist, or big data specialist to advance automation and autonomy technologies for sophisticated off-board vehicle instrumentation and controls systems, as well as associated monitoring platforms. In this position, you will collaborate with an innovative team leveraging advanced methodologies and tools, including petabyte-scale datasets, to perform cutting-edge analytics and model development. Your expertise will play a significant role in driving the development of intelligent, automated equipment and enhancing decision-making capabilities for agricultural professionals.

We welcome applicants at both early and advanced stages of their careers who can demonstrate significant, independent achievements involving complex and innovative contributions within a dynamic delivery environment. Concise (single page) resumes with no cover letter that speak to the attributes below are given priority consideration. Noteworthy examples or experiences that distinguish you include:

Technical:

• Excellent coding skills that include production software deployment
• Data engineering, ML modeling, & decision science with terabyte or petabyte level data sources
• Experience (concept to production) developing and deploying novel machine learning solutions
• MLOps workflows with tools like AWS services (IAM, Lambda, S3, MLflow), Databricks, or related.
• Building productionized workflows involving large and disparate data sources (e.g. images, rasters, parquet, time-series, geo-tagged, text, and other unstructured data)
• Building real-time & interactive dashboards involving spatiotemporal/GIS visualization tools (e.g. Folium, Plotly), and labeling systems like SuperAnnotate, Labelbox, Voxel51.
• Debugging complex hardware & software systems, and associated data issues

Communication & Leadership:

• Influencing without authority, building rapport, persuading key collaborators, communicating progress/recommendations/methods/insights to stakeholders (e.g. product & delivery managers)
• Scoping work & setting priorities, leading brainstorming sessions & proof of concept studies, organizing teams in an Agile style delivery environment, & executing with consistency
• Define, quantify, and analyze key performance and customer value Indicators/metrics to support successful outcomes.

Education & Invention:

• Advanced technical degree (Ph.D. or equivalent experience preferred)
• Publishing novel research in journals and conferences
• Patents (including delivery of patented solution)

Join a passionate team making a difference by applying innovative technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems.

*** If this position may be interested to you, please email me back at somp767@kellyservices.com with your most up to date resume in word format) and advise the best time and number at which you can be reached****