DATA SCIENTIST

US-PA-Allentown

Data Scientist - Allentown, PA

At Air Products, our purpose is to bring people together to reimagine what’s possible, collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Grow with us as we embark on building tomorrow together by being the safest, most diverse and most profitable industrial gas company in the world.

Reimagine What’s Possible

Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a world-leading Industrial Gases company in operation for over 75 years, has an immediate opening in our Smart Systems Computational Technology team for a creative and inquisitive engineer based at our Corporate Headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

The AP develops world-scale energy and industrial gases projects provides renewable and sustainable energy solutions as well as atmospheric and process gases and related equipment to manufacturing markets, including refining and petrochemical, metals, electronics, and food and beverage. Air Products is also the world’s leading supplier of liquefied natural gas process technology and equipment.

Smart System Team is a part of the Computational Technology organization. Air Products Product lines, Engineering, procurement, and construction activities rely on the team to improve the competitiveness of our EPC work process and implement world-class digital solutions to achieve a high-performing project execution organization. The team delivers competitive digital technology advancements for AP across EPC, Product, Operation, and R&D areas, including enterprise applications, unique engineering and R&D data solutions, and data sciences analytics solutions. The research engineers work with the entire Technology, Product Line, EPC, and operational teams, to deliver world-class solutions from data solutions to advanced AI.

The successful candidate will lead projects and development work supporting and deploying world-class unique data and AI technology solutions for AP engineering, operation and business. The candidate will be leading development projects to design, develop and test data and analytics solutions and supervise software engineers. The candidate will work as part of cross-functional research, engineering, and IT teams developing conceptual and detailed digital solutions, AI analytics, and work automation solutions. This position requires a broad engineering information management background and a deep understanding of data architecture, advanced analytics, and application development. The candidate will be required to solve various problems, which involve complex engineering work processes, complex data relations, advanced analytics, and cloud-based infrastructure. This position involves up to 10% travel to global locations.

Existing project areas where the candidate can expect to be involved include:

• Lead/participate in the development of digital solutions to support Green, Blue H2 projects for engineering, procurement, and operation work processes.
• Lead/support current computational solutions, develop tests, conduct maintenance, and debugging activities.
• Supervise/guide software engineers, responsible for their schedule, performance, and development.
• Responsible for SST supported digital solution architecture improvement and debugging activities.
• Collaborate with business/product owners to understand the business needs and create ideas to support these needs and offer solutions.
• Design data storage and analytics solutions for the EPC, product development, and operation.
• Write technical reports, project proposals, present solutions, and lead projects

The candidate will be expected to learn company processes, software, and cloud infrastructure as needed for specific projects. To that end, the following skills will be beneficial:

• Experience in leading the development of computational solutions in the industrial gasses area
• Experience in database and cloud technologies
• Experience in technical evaluations of ideas/projects
• Interest in understanding business needs and passion to create world-class data solutions to support those needs.

Qualifications / Skills

• Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering is strongly preferred.
• 1-3 years of experience in related industry
• Track record of successful solution development in an engineering environment
• Strong knowledge in databases, application development environments, and data science tools
• Creative & innovative with a positive attitude
• Ability to function well in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Proficiency in managing the development of digital solutions with Scrum Master certification being a plus
• Able to work within and lead interdisciplinary, global project teams
• Knowledgeable in modern SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Ability to develop and deploy RESTful API’s for data transfer and orchestration between digital solutions
• Applied awareness of modern web application development stack
• Comfortable with leveraging AWS Cloud for deploying and integrating applications
• Familiarity with Data Science Tools (e.g., Python and R) and how to apply them to derive data-driven insight pertaining to EPC use-cases
• Experience with developing and deploying Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipelines is a plus

We are the world’s largest hydrogen producer with over 80 years of industrial gas experience. We are hydrogen experts delivering safe, end-to-end solutions, investing in real, clean energy projects at scale, and driving the industry forward to generate a cleaner future.

At Air Products, we work in an environment where we put safety first, diversity is essential, inclusion is our culture, and each person knows they belong and matter. To learn more, visit About Air Products.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid holidays and vacation, affordable medical, dental, life insurance and retirement plans. You will be eligible for benefits and also be 100% vested in your retirement benefits on your first day of employment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (U.S.). You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, gender, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, or veteran status.

Air Products is committed to working with and providing a reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail us at talent@airproducts.com. General application status inquiries are not answered by this mailbox rather you’ll receive an e-mail directly from our Career Center and/or the Talent Acquisition Specialist.

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43117BR

Full Time

Global Engrg Mfg Technology & Equipment

Global Gases Technology

North America

United States