about greenfield labs greenfield labs is a partnership between ford and ideo we are a multidisciplinary team using design to develop and pilot new products and services to bring humanity to mobility and transportation solutions in cities around the world as a data scientist and designer you will work with a team of people in designing developing and testing new product and service prototypes in particular you will bring datadriven thinking and provide expertise on the positive potential of intersecting intelligent technologies with humancentered design you are confident around telling stories with data and using its power to unlock potential opportunities in new products and services this is a versatile role suited to candidates who enjoy approaching a wide variety of problems within a small but capable engineering design team you will conceive and develop software that helps from data exploration analysis that tackle the constantly changing landscape in the transportation and mobility space nnnn within our studio you will perform exploratory data analysis creating plots and interactive data visualizations while implementing various machine learning statistical and optimization techniques contribute practice data science in a humancentered way and to treat data as a richly complex and flexible medium for design go out in the field to build empathy for users needs firsthand and do field research to build first hand empathy debrief and discuss user feedback with crossdisciplinary teams in order to synthesize research into meaningful design iterations work with a diverse set of stakeholders to communicate complex concepts and complete projects share techniques and approaches with other designersfrom the software design discipline to interaction design and beyond help integrate your prototypes and ideas with other interdisciplinary members of the lab to help bring them to life your mindset you are a specialist in data science but have the curiosity and desire to stretch across software product and design you are a confident and flexible leader of interdisciplinary teams where harmonious collaboration is imperative you are a design thinker at heart openminded curious exploratory iterative and optimistic you are agile and can flex between being scrappy to move fast and detailoriented to go deep navigating the ambiguity of designing for complex hairy problems you are comfortable vetting and aligning partners and shepherding stakeholders on the journey of bringing experiments and pilots to life you have a passion for design a pulse on emerging trends and technology and a developed point of view about your work basic qualifications bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics statistics or a related field 1 year of experience in a dataoriented role working in a multidisciplinary team preferred qualifications masters degree in computer science engineering mathematics statistics or a related field have familiarity and experience with tools like python hadoop tensorflow scikitlearn sql d3js mapreduce tableau or r previous experience in working with and building for location aware services and familiarity with web service development and api integration with multiple systems have a portfolio of open source contributions personal projects presentations or