Overview
Job Title: Data Scientist
Company: Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group
Location: Chicago, IL
Opportunity: Senior Data Scientist – Aviation Analytics (7+ years)
Responsibilities
- Translate business problems into ML solutions.
- Build models for time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, survival analysis, clustering, and optimization.
- Engineer features from flight logs, ACARS, ADS-B, maintenance logs, and weather data.
- Productionize models on AWS with CI/CD, model registry, feature store, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering to ensure data quality, lineage, and governance.
- Communicate insights and model decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Lead advanced analytics and ML initiatives for airlines/aero programs—spanning flight telemetry, aircraft health monitoring, operational efficiency, delay attribution, fuel optimization, and safety insights. Own end-to-end model lifecycle from problem framing to production in AWS (multi-cloud is a plus).
Mandatory Skills
- 7+ years in Data Science with 3+ years in aviation or large-scale event/time-series domains.
- Strong in Python, SQL, Spark; hands-on with time-series, anomaly detection, Bayesian methods.
- AWS: SageMaker, S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch.
- Streaming/event data: Kafka/MSK or Kinesis, Spark Structured Streaming/Flink.
Preferred Qualifications
- FOQA, QAR/DFDR, ACMS, AID, ATA chapters, MSG-3/CBM, AMOS/RAMCO/TRAX.
- Safety programs (ASAP/SMS/LOSA), ICAO Annex 19 context; EASA/FAA exposure.
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time