Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: New York City, NY
Employment Type: Temp (4 months)
Industry: Manufacturing
Compensation: $74.21 - $81.35/hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week - 1
st shift
8 am - 5 pm
About the Opportunity:
- We're looking for a Data Scientist to lead impactful research across one or more scientific capability areas, such as robotics, perception, computer vision, language and agents, time series, control, planning, or evaluation.
- You'll work closely with engineers and product managers to turn research into practical, scalable product capabilities while helping shape the direction of your area.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Own scientific capability areas end to end, translating ambiguous product or system needs into clear research questions, hypotheses, and measurable success criteria.
- Lead research projects from literature review and method selection through experimentation, ablation studies, error analysis, and productization.
- Identify and address scaling challenges, including data quality, model drift, latency, throughput, cost, and safety.
- Champion rigorous experimentation, reproducibility, and strong research documentation across the team.
- Apply responsible AI practices, including bias detection, model risk management, and human-in-the-loop controls.
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 8+ years of experience in applied machine learning, AI research, or data science, with a good publication record.
What Sets You Apart:
- Experience applying ML in industrial or physical domains: manufacturing, automation, robotics, energy, mobility, infrastructure, healthcare.
- Deep expertise in one of: robotics, multimodal ML, generative AI, retrieval augmented generation, agentic workflows, time series, control, or planning.
- Scientific ML for physical systems: surrogate modeling, operator learning, physics-informed ML, geometry-aware ML, differentiable simulation, AI for semiconductor/EDA.
- Hands-on experience building evaluation pipelines, running online experiments, or instrumenting production monitoring for a model you owned.
- Publications, patents, open source contributions, or significant internal technology transfers.
- Experience mentoring junior scientists and interns.
- Experience working with globally distributed research, product, or engineering organizations.
- Holds a faculty position at a top university.
- Strong foundation in machine learning theory and practice across training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks and toolchains.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
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Aug 31, 2026