Data Scientist - Pricing Systems
Company: CARMAX
Location: Richmond
Posted on: August 6, 2022
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Job Description:
8901 - Corp Office West Crk - 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway,
Richmond, Virginia, 23238CarMax, the way your career should
be!**About this job**Disrupting the marketplace more than 25 years
ago, CarMax became the largest used car retailer in the US.
However, our goals as a company aren't just to be the best in the
industry but a leading retailer across all industries.Our pricing
and inventory systems team work to accurately value the unique
characteristics of each individual car that we buy or sell and
allocate those vehicles across our 200+ stores. Last year alone,
CarMax sold more than 1 million vehicles, appraised over 2 million
vehicles, and had $150m in weekly auto auction spend - all while
dealing with constantly changing consumer demand, wholesale auction
supply, and other market conditions that are often regionally
differentiated.To realize the full value of our models, our systems
experts must accurately and instantaneously deliver thousands of
recommendations to our field associates daily. This requires the
combination of a deep understanding of our models, the quantitative
and technical skills to deploy new models as robust and stable
systems, and the results focus and analytical ability to quickly
diagnose and fix problems.**Essential Responsibilities**+
Collaborate with our pricing algorithm modeling experts to rapidly
deploy newly developed models+ Leverage strong computer science and
software engineering skills to build software that: a) calculates
the optimal value for each vehicle and b) serves as a data pipeline
to field associates in seconds+ Develop and execute a management
system that ensures the right value is put on every vehicle every
day+ Ensure that new code deployments are stable and align with
intent through unit testing+ Build automated monitoring and alert
systems to ensure that production models are delivering intended
values+ Quickly respond to and resolve pricing system issues+
Partner with CarMax Technology to evolve system infrastructure to
support our business and data science needs+ Communicate how our
systems work within and outside of the team, both at a general
level and a detailed level**Qualifications and Requirements**+
Ability to consistently deliver at a high level on the
responsibilities listed above+ Degree in Data Science, Computer
Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or related
fieldRequirements listed below are representative of the knowledge
and skills required:+ Mathematical, modeling, and reasoning skills
to understand complex pricing models and deploy them accurately+
Computer programming skills to integrate new models into our
existing framework+ Experience/familiarity with our exciting
technology suite (Azure, Python, R, SQL, Teradata, etc.) and to
explore new technologies to enhance our data science capabilities+
Strong communication and teamwork to deliver clear and consistent
messaging**Interviewing Process**Due to COVID-19, most of our
employees are working from home. We've implemented a virtual hiring
process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video. We
value the safety of each member of our community because we know
we're all in this together.Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will
consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job
Application.
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