Lead Data Scientist

Overview

Hilti is investing heavily in expanding its software and service portfolio and digitizing customer workflows. Our Business Unit Fastening & Protection Solutions (BU FPS) develops cutting-edge end-to-end solutions for structural connections, MEP supports, and fire protection. We see tremendous opportunities in leveraging data, advanced analytics, and Generative AI to automate and optimize design and engineering tasks for our customers (value engineering).

As a Data Scientist within the newly created Data & Analytics team of BU FPS, your primary responsibility will be to explore, analyze, and model complex datasets to deliver actionable insights and predictive capabilities that enhance Hilti’s customer-facing software and service solutions. You will design and implement advanced analytics approaches, train and validate machine learning models, and contribute to generative AI initiatives. Working closely with software and data engineers, ML specialists, and business stakeholders, you will ensure data-driven solutions are robust, scalable, and integrated into production systems to create measurable business impact.

What You'll do As a Data Scientist, you will play a key role in transforming data into actionable insights and advanced analytical solutions that drive innovation for Hilti’s customer-facing products and services. Your mission is to leverage statistical analysis, machine learning, and Generative AI to solve complex business problems, enable data-driven decision-making, and help our customers to become more productive. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, ML engineers, and data engineers.

The Role Will Require You To

Design and develop advanced analytics and ML models for both traditional and Generative AI use cases, including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and interpretation.

Translate business challenges into data-driven solutions, applying statistical and machine learning techniques to deliver measurable impact.

Drive innovation and mentor others by exploring emerging ML and GenAI technologies, recommending enhancements to existing systems, and coaching junior team members to foster a culture of technical excellence.

Collaborate with ML Engineers to ensure models are production-ready and integrated seamlessly into customer-facing applications.

Work with Data Engineers to define data requirements and ensure high-quality, well-structured datasets for modeling and analysis.

Together with the team, you will deliver sustainable, data-driven solutions that support Hilti’s long-term goals while creating tangible short-term value for our customers

What You’ll Bring A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field; preference for a Master’s degree.

Proven experience (5+ years) in applying advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to real-world business problems, ideally in cloud-based environments (AWS or similar).

Strong expertise in data preprocessing, feature engineering, model development, and evaluation, including experience with LLM architectures, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.

Hands-on experience with Generative AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, OpenAI API) and familiarity with integrating models into production systems via APIs.

Proficiency with AWS services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Glue, Athena, and Lambda for analytics and ML workflows.

Excellent problem-solving skills, strong communication abilities in English, and the capability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines while driving innovation and delivering measurable business impact.

What’s In It for You Become a valuable member of our highly professional and international team of software experts and data scientists and meet the challenges of a global multinational company using latest technologies. You will have the freedom to act in the responsible area with career prospects in a dynamic environment, excellent opportunities to develop yourself to higher levels and wider range of knowledge Furthermore, 80% of our top positions are filled internally. We have a clearly defined career development track for every individual employee and an excellent team whom are duly rewarded by performance.

Why Hilti Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Commitment to Inclusion At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.