The Home Depot is transforming how merchandising decisions are made through AI-powered solutions and automation, and this Lead Data Scientist role is key to designing and building state-of-the-art GenAI and Agentic AI Systems to enable autonomous decision recommendations.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
- Demonstrated expertise utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
- 10+ years of combined AI engineering experience or equivalent in software engineering or ML engineering
- 2+ years of experience developing/deploying GenAI or LLM-driven automated systems, and Agentic AI evaluation frameworks at scale
- Hands-on experience with LLM agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain etc.)
- Strong understanding of structured agent interactions (eg., MCP and A2A)
- Proven experience deploying models and APIs in containerized, cloud-neutral environments
Responsibilities
- Utilize expertise when designing and developing algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights
- Make appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytics methodologies
- Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners
- Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams
- Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work
- Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science by attending conferences and publishing papers
- Participate in the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by developing replicable solutions
Other
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time
- Must have a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
- 10 years of work experience
