Principal Data Scientist
First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026.
Principal Data Scientist
Bangalore / Full-Time
Job Description
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be responsible for identifying, scoping, and delivering inference-driven features. An ability to take large, scientifically complex projects and break them down into manageable hypothesis and experiments to inform, functional specifications, then deliver features in a successful and timely manner is expected. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence are essential to success in this role. We will rely on your experience in successfully delivering projects that significantly, positively, and measurably affect the business. You should have experience in large scale Data Science projects.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with the Tech team to convert those POC into fully scalable products.
- Actively identify existing and new features which could benefit from predictive modelling and productionization of predictive models
- Actively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, scientific, and technical goals
- Contribute to research and development of AI/ML techniques and technology that fuels the business innovation and growth of Mareana
- Work closely with engineers to deploy models in production both in real time and in batch process and systematically track model performance
- Encourage team building, best practices sharing especially with more junior team members
Requirements & Skills
- Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on product development
- Master's or PhD degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field
- More than 6 years of experience in practicing machine learning and data science in business
- SQL experience
- Experience with end to end feature development (owning feature definition, roadmap development and experimentation
- Expert in Machine Learning and MLOps
- Strong communication and interpersonal influencing skills.
- Excellent problem solving and critical thinking capabilities.
- Strong computing/programming skills; Proficient in Python, Spark, SQL, Linux shell script.
- Strong experience in Big Data and Cloud technology.
About Mareana
Founded in 2015, Mareana is an AI-powered software company with the mission of accelerating digital transformation in manufacturing, supply chain, and sustainability via our connected intelligence platform.
Mareana's platform uses AI/ML to rapidly connect disparate, siloed data across the entire business process, allowing our customers to shift their time and effort from data preparation to making complex business decisions intuitively, in real time.
Our customers are market leaders in life sciences, chemicals, and general manufacturing who have realized over a billion dollars in business value by leveraging our platform. Our ethos of continuous innovation has been recognized by Gartner, who named us a Cool Vendor in AI. We have also been featured as a thought leader in Silicon Review and Manufacturing Insights magazine.