Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

The Data Scientist - Data Analytics is responsible for generating insights and to augment decision making by the business. At Costco, we are on a mission to significantly leverage big data to provide better security products and services for our practitioners. This role is focused on advanced analytics, machine learning and data science delivery to support multiple InfoSec areas. This role will partner with Security Operations and other data owners to build, test advanced analytics solutions and turn data into actionable insights. The Data Scientist is a knowledgeable leader with an ability to lead and is passionate about data and using machine learning to solve security problems. The right candidate will have deep knowledge of applying data science for forecasting, customer analysis, item and inventory management and other areas of retail.

We are looking for a highly motivated, customer focused professional who wants to work in a fun and highly collaborative environment and willing to be the player as well as coach for the data science community at Costco.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Designs the analytics methodology to solve business problems.

● Conducts end-to-end analysis, including data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, ongoing deliverables, and presentations.

● Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis.

● Enriches enterprise data with external sources of information when needed.

● Mines and analyzes data from enterprise databases by applying statistics, machine learning and analytic approaches to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques, business strategies etc.

● Uses predictive modeling to increase and optimize supply chain, customer experiences, loyalty programs and other business outcomes.

● Selects features, and builds and optimizes classifiers using machine learning techniques.

● Assesses the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.

● Enhances data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems.

● Develops company testing framework and test model quality.

● Coordinates with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.

● Develops processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

● Creates automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.

● Conducts ad-hoc analysis and presents results in an articulated manner.

● Works with stakeholders throughout the organization to understand their requests/business problems and to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

● Develops comprehensive knowledge of data structures and metrics, and advocates for changes where needed for product development.

● Leads the analysis by applying statistics, machine learning and analytic approaches to predict and optimize business outcomes.

● Designs and builds ML/DL models to solve business problems.

● Frames a problem correctly and comes up with a hypothesis.

● Assesses the effectiveness and accuracy of models on an ongoing basis.

● Identifies new data that could enhance the quality and accuracy of models to improve predictions.

● Communicates results effectively with storytelling and visualization.

● Coaches the team in feature engineering using machine learning techniques.

● Performs peer review for another Data Scientist’s work.

● Provides feedback to enhance the testing framework and MLOps.

● Extends beyond core data science work to perform data wrangling and data preparation as needed.

REQUIRED

● 5+ years’ experience in delivering business insights using advanced statistical and machine learning models and visualization.

● Proficiency in working with diverse databases and other data sources.

● Strong proficiency in Machine Learning, Statistical and Reporting tools (Python, R, SQL, PowerBI).

● Knowledge of Deep Learning and Neural Networks, and its applications.

● Strong experience working in Cloud (AWS, Azure) based analytics platform.

● Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Recommended:

● Graduate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, and Statistics/Mathematics or related field.

● Knowledge of Agile software development.

● Experience in software development.

● Exposure to the retail industry.

● Experience leading team of data scientists.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Range: $188,000 - $240,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.