Drimva

The Home Depot

Principal Data Scientist - CX

STORE SUPPORT CENTER, ATLANTA - 9090 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026

Experience
Minimum 10 years; no additional preferred years stated.
Education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a related field; preferred: PhD or Master's degree in a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
Visa sponsorship
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

About the job

Leads end-to-end data science and AI initiatives, especially customer-support AI and agentic workflows, from solution design through production and ongoing evaluation.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop predictive models, generative AI applications, and agentic workflows integrated with enterprise data, APIs, and production systems.
  • Partner with product, engineering, architecture, and business teams to turn customer and operational problems into scalable AI capabilities; guide evaluation, monitoring, and improvement.
  • Provide technical leadership through mentoring, reusable AI capabilities, recruiting support, and development of data science practices.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or advanced analytics.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python and strong experience with modern data science and machine learning libraries and frameworks.
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL and experience with large-scale cloud data platforms such as Google BigQuery or equivalent technologies.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Nice to have

  • Strong expertise in Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • Experience designing agentic AI systems and multi-step AI workflows, including tool/function calling, reasoning and planning, and orchestration.

Tools

Python, SQL, Google BigQuery, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), APIs

AI focus

Develops AI-powered customer support and agentic workflows that understand customer intent, reason across enterprise data and tools, take actions, and improve self-service resolution. Involves generative AI, LLMs, predictive models, evaluation, and production deployment.

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