Senior Data Scientist

Location: Bengaluru

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At Danaher, our work saves lives. And each of us plays a part. Fuelled by our culture of continuous improvement, we turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Our 63,000+ associates work across the globe at more than 15 unique businesses within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.
Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference? At Danaher, you can build an incredible career at a leading science and technology company, where we’re committed to hiring and developing from within. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter.
Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.
Danaher’s India Development Center - IDC is a research and development center with the vision of accelerating product roadmaps across various Danaher business segments. Started in 2014, the center now hosts 700+ associates, for multiple Danaher operating companies focusing on Diagnostics, Life Science, and Environmental and Applied Science segments. The operating companies include Beckman Coulter, Radiometer, Leica Biosystems, Digital Teams, Leica Microsystems, Hemo Cue, Phenomenex SCIEX and Cepheid.
The IDC workforce comprises of various product engineering teams, working on development of software and hardware components of cutting-edge products for, Immunoassay, Chemistry, Hematology, Molecular diagnostics, Oncology, Neurosurgery etc,. IDC has evolved as center of excellence for Cloud and data analytics, with significant contributions to the key informatics solutions. The teams consist of highly hardworking software & hardware engineers and development managers.

The teams are supported by local Product managers, Quality & Regulatory and Intellectual property specialists.

The inhouse teams works in close coordination with other global R&D centers at US, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Denmark and Sweden. Located at the center of Bangalore IT HUB, IDC is housed at state of art facility.

The  Senior Data Scientist  at Danaher Enterprise AI team, supporting various initiatives and advancing business objectives through rigorous data analysis, model development, and decision enablement for scientific, technical, or operational functions. This role is based in India, Bangalore working onsite and will report through the aligned business and organizational structure.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Lead the design, development, and implementation of AI/ML models tailored to Service and support initiatives (Example:
Ticket Triage, Intelligent routing, Predictive maintenance, resource planning, customer interaction analysis etc.,)
Develop and deploy generative AI models and ML models for service and support use cases, fine-tuning large pre-trained LLMs, evaluating modeling performance; continuously iterating and optimizing the solutions.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Data Engineering, Product, IT, Service Ops, business functions) to operationalize AI models using scalable MLOps pipelines
Partners with solution architect engineers to enable appropriate data flow/data model, development using appropriate tools/technology to ensure rapid prototyping, testing and deployment
Ensure models are robust, scalable, and production ready with clear monitoring and feedback loops. Ability to work with confidential and sensitive data in accordance with company policies and data protection requirements
The essential requirements of the job include:
PhD or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics or a related field.
8+ years of experience in applied AI/ML roles, Data Science with at least 5 years focused on developing models and algorithms
Strong expertise in optimization, regression, classification, time series, deep learning, GenAI, Agentic AI.Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala or similar and ML libraries (Tensor Flow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc.).
Strong experience with MLOps…