Daimler Truck North America
Daimler Truck North America
Daimler Truck North America develops and delivers vehicles, technologies, and services for the commercial transportation industry. Its portfolio includes medium- and heavy-duty trucks, school buses, chassis, and related transportation solutions associated with Freightliner, Western Star, and Thomas Built Buses. The company brings together engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and service expertise, with a focus on advancing innovation and sustainability across logistics, automotive, and transport.

Data Science Supervisor II

Lead AI architecture, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents, and scalable data platforms at Daimler Truck North America. Guide teams building governed AI solutions for manufacturing, finance, and aftermarket operations.

Description

  • Develop data and AI products using DTNA and Daimler Truck data foundations and emerging technologies.
  • Lead data architecture, AI implementation, and collaboration across regions.
  • Review architectures and advise on technical direction, feasibility, and scalability for AI initiatives.
  • Find high-impact data and AI opportunities across business units and regions.
  • Coordinate with DTG data leads, architects, and group technical leaders on data and AI solutions.
  • Work with DTICI to establish global data and AI architecture standards and solutions.
  • Adapt global data and AI solutions to regional needs and regulatory requirements.
  • Build internal knowledge sharing through data and AI communities of practice.
  • Keep the enterprise data platform scalable and ready for AI, with discoverable, governed, usable data.
  • Partner with business leaders to select valuable use cases and develop proofs of concept and minimum viable products.
  • Assess and pilot AI tools, platforms, models, and vendors, and recommend architecture roadmaps.
  • Use AI to improve data preparation, quality, documentation, and automation.
  • Create patterns, pipelines, and MLOps and LLMOps practices to deploy and scale AI solutions.
  • Apply responsible AI practices that meet security, privacy, quality, and governance standards.
  • Advise stakeholders on AI capabilities and help them build relevant skills and prioritize work.
  • Lead the design and hands-on delivery of enterprise RAG and agent-based solutions.
  • Build enterprise AI agents with RAG, semantic retrieval, vector search, tool orchestration, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Set AI quality measures and evaluation frameworks, including reference datasets, pipelines, LLM-as-judge processes, and regression tests.
  • Create semantic and ontology-based data models for enterprise AI, self-service analytics, reasoning, and knowledge discovery.
  • Assess and adopt emerging AI standards, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
  • Manage a team of AI and data professionals.
  • Conduct employee reviews and impact discussions, and provide feedback and guidance.
  • Support development plans and recruit, mentor, and retain AI talent.
  • Build a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
  • Set team goals and performance targets that support strategic priorities.
  • Develop high-performing engineering teams through hiring, technical interviews, mentoring, and talent development.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture, design, code, AI solution, and production-readiness reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or design discipline such as computer science, software design, or data science, plus at least seven years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with major cloud analytics platforms.
  • Experience with major big data analytics platforms.
  • Experience with generative AI and leading large language models.
  • Experience deploying and managing large cloud compute workloads for performance and cost efficiency.
  • Expert-level SQL skills.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling and relational and non-relational data stores.
  • Strong understanding of data engineering and architecture.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and modern data platforms.
  • Experience preparing and architecting data for machine learning and AI use.
  • Ability to work with structured and unstructured data at scale.
  • Experience with streaming and real-time data architectures, including Kafka and event-driven pipelines.
  • Experience with distributed computing frameworks.
  • Experience with cloud-native AI services such as Azure AI and AWS SageMaker.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration.
  • Hands-on experience with agentic AI frameworks or orchestration tools and major AI and data platform ecosystems.
  • Experience taking AI solutions from prototype to reliable, monitored production at scale.
  • Track record of delivering business transformation through data and AI.
  • Strong business judgment and ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences.
  • Experience in multinational or matrixed organizations.
  • A resume must be attached to the application.
  • The selected candidate must pass a criminal background check.
  • The selected candidate may be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work permanently in the United States when applying, except current Daimler Truck North America employees working under an existing U.S. Daimler Truck North America visa.
  • An advanced degree in computer science, AI, data science, or a related field is preferred.
  • Experience with large datasets and distributed computing is a plus.
  • Experience using GitHub or a similar collaborative development platform is a plus.
  • Experience with manufacturing, finance, or aftermarket data is a plus.
  • Familiarity with regional regulatory frameworks and data privacy laws is a plus.
  • Multilingual skills or experience working across diverse cultures is a plus.
  • Thought leadership demonstrated through publications or speaking engagements is a plus.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance is not offered for this position.
  • Hybrid schedule with four days in the office and one remote day per week.
  • Equal employment opportunity; accommodation or special assistance is available during the application process.
  • The hiring process may include a pre-employment drug screen and criminal background check.

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