Principal Data Scientist, Digital Innovation - Predictive Formulations

About Ingredion:
Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference.

Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create.

Location:

Bridgewater, NJ or Westchester, IL. Workplace type:
On‑Site/Hybrid (3 days week on site & 2 day week remote).

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be our data science guru, our technical trailblazer, and the mastermind behind a scalable, adaptive data lakehouse and analytical layer that transforms raw data into strategic insight. Your work will empower our global formulators and food scientists to unlock the full potential of over a century of collective knowledge, guiding experimentation, formulation, and product development with precision and purpose.

You will accelerate innovations - bringing the potential of people, nature and technology together to make life better.

We are looking for a trusted advisor on technical strategy, a mentor to your peers, and a champion of impactful data science. If you’re ready to build something extraordinary, apply now and help us shape the future of predictive formulation.

The Principal Data Scientist reports to the Director, Innovation – Digital.

• You’ll be at the forefront of AI/ML advancements applying cutting‑edge techniques to real‑world challenges and driving measurable business outcomes.
• Leading the design and implementation of a robust data framework that evolves with our innovation business.
• Structuring and scaling a dynamic data lakehouse and democratic analytical layer in Google Cloud, which supports our vision for using data to guide ingredient selection, predictive formulation strategies, and customer‑centric innovation.
• Collaborating with technical resources to stand up scalable machine learning pipelines that can quickly adapt to new challenges.
• Developing and deploying machine learning models tailored to evolving business needs.
• Mentoring the next generation of data scientists – fostering a culture of excellence.
• Supporting the Director – Innovation, Digital to select & drive use cases that will accelerate our ability to use data to hone in on the right solutions for our customers.

• Years of work experience in predictive modeling, data science and analysis – where you have demonstrated the ability to set the long‑term technical vision and see it through (with a strong preference for those who have done this within a Google ecosystem).
• Proven delivery of multiple major data science initiatives providing measurable value and insight to business stakeholders – articulating and translating business questions, using statistical techniques to arrive at a solution using available data.
• Technical leadership – from your degrees in relevant quantitative fields, on top of the ability to utilize data scripting languages (e.g. SQL, Python) and understand statistical methods and advanced modeling techniques (e.g. machine learning, Bayesian inference).
• Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to inspire and speak about technical concepts to business, technical and lay audiences.
• Preferably a strong background in Food or Global ingredient solutions – to understand the challenges and opportunities of new solution formulation using data.

• Visionary - able to step out of the day to day and think strategically about the future of insights in our space – you won’t just be thinking about today’s challenges – but what comes next.
• Curious and eager to evolve - continuously exploring emerging technologies, including generative AI, ML platforms, and advanced modeling techniques.
• A mentor – who values taking the time to bring up all those around you – supporting their…