Principal Data Scientist

Location: Illinois Remote Work

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Job Description

• Architect a voice-based chat system that allows police officers to perform location search, person search and other day-to-day activities.
• Develop AI text processing that takes ASR text and adds capitalization, digitization and punctuation.
• Build AI algorithms that take unstructured data and converts it to structured data that enables humans to search over big amounts of data.
• Design new ways to create parsers that can be used for any general search-based applications using LLMs.
• Manage interns and guide them with various data science projects as part of research park innovation center.
• Design REST API and build data governance to ensure quality, security and privacy of customer data.
• Experience with Azure, Google and AWS cloud services to deploy services and containers.
• Natural language database queries in an end-to-end public safety ecosystem.
• Work with LLMs designing prompts and fine tuning for specific tasks.
• Build chatbots using various frameworks such as Rasa, Voiceflow and Google DFCX.
• Develop AI text processing algorithms that enable free text and voice-based interactions between humans and large computer systems.
• Architect a voice-based chat system that allows police officers to perform location search, person search and other day-to-day activities.
• Mentoring junior data scientists developing NLP and text processing algorithms.
• Design multilingual datasets that can be used for training and testing multilingual translation models.
• Develop queries that are optimized to retrieve data fast while reading from ELK stack.
• Develop and evaluate custom datasets to assess and fine-tune STT (speech to text) and TTS (text to speech) models for optimal performance and continuous improvement.
• Managing cloud-based provisioning system with real-time updates and radio integration.
• Telecommuting permitted from anywhere within the U.S.

Target Base Salary Range: $139,818 to $178,600 USD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Basic Requirements

• Masters degree + 2 years experience or
• Bachelors degree + 5 years experience.

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• Generous Paid Time Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Paid Parental & Family Leave

• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.