Senior Data Scientist – TechOps Engineering Analytics

How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

The Senior Data Scientist, Engineering Analytics will help advance the engineering and maintenance organization through the application of innovative and robust analytical and modeling solutions aimed at deriving insights from complex aircraft mechanical performance data. These include, but are not limited to, the application of innovative large language models aimed at deriving insights from maintenance and engineering documentation, technical instructions, and operational text data.

Analyses may also include cross-skill partnerships for the development of risk metrics, predictive maintenance solutions, and aircraft performance alerts.

An appropriate candidate will have hands‑on experience in natural language processing, machine learning, statistical analysis, and data storytelling. The candidate should also have good organizational and communication skills.

• Develop machine learning models and advanced analytics solutions for complex business problems in the engineering, predictive maintenance, and aircraft reliability space
• Make appropriate selection, utilization, and interpretation of advanced analytics methodologies
• Participate in continuous improvement of data science by developing replicable solutions and well documented models
• Seek further knowledge on key developments within data science and related fields
• Provide technical education on advanced analytics to the data science community
• Clearly communicate impacts of the recommended analytics solution to business partners to drive adoption and implementation

• Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and experience (Doctoral degree preferred)
• 3-5 years of work experience in advanced analytics and data science
• Working knowledge of GIT for code management
• Good written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strong project management, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles
• Consistently makes safety and security, of self and others, the priority
• Must be performing satisfactorily in present position
• Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States

• Experience with AWS services for scalable Data Science development (e.g., Sagemaker, S3, Bedrock) or equivalent cloud services
• Proficiency in building and fine‑tuning transformer‑based models for NLP classification tasks
• Fluency with SQL and relational databases
• Familiarization with API consumption and orchestration pipelines
• Knowledge of transformer architecture and current landscape of LLM

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry‑leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives.
• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%.
• New hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12‑month period.
• 10 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Birthing parents are eligible for 12‑weeks of paid maternity/parental leave.
• Non‑birthing parents are eligible for 2‑weeks of paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits.
• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back‑up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages.
• Holistic…