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Staff Data Scientist
Location
United States
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$128.9K - $157.9K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Data Scientist
Code for America
• Conduct descriptive data analysis using case, survey, and event data to identify and size problems. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify potential improvements • Develop and implement key metrics to measure the effectiveness and impact of our products and services • Apply AI/ML techniques in collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve the delivery of products and services • Analyze administrative and public data to estimate the impact of proposed changes. • Create and maintain dashboards and visualizations to communicate key insights to stakeholders • Build and maintain evaluation pipelines to monitor AI system performance and turn results into prompt, model, and design improvements • Clean, combine, and make sense of diverse administrative data. • Investigate the barriers people face in applying for and keeping benefits. • Work with qualitative researchers to generate hypotheses about how to help our users. • Make use of past findings internally, from agencies, and from outside researchers to help strategically guide projects. • Work with program, product, engineering, and design to identify where our analytics and AI capacity will be most impactful. • Break down, estimate, and prioritize tasks with a good architectural/systems perspective • Lead and deliver on medium to large size projects • Create and maintain technical documentation for data science projects and models • Communicate project status, risks, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor other data scientists on the team • Contribute to the development of data science best practices and standards • Other duties as assigned
Job Requirements
- At least 6 years as a data scientist or equivalent
- Expert in Python or R, SQL
- Fluency with product analytics - defining, implementing, analyzing and communicating software product metrics.
- Experience with collaborative coding tools such as Github or notebooks (RMarkdown, Hex, Google Collab, Jupyter)
- Experience with Metabase or similar business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) for creating dashboards and reports for the organization
- Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, scikit-learn, Tensor Flow, etc.
- Experience with large language models, knowledge of prompt engineering and working with APIs of large-scale generative AI models
- Solid understanding of a wide range of statistical concepts and methods.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate findings to both technical and general audiences
- Excellent collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional relationships, respond to external stakeholders needs, and facilitate effective decision-making conversations
- Proven ability to work through ambiguous problems, breaking them down into their component steps
- Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively
Benefits
- Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another
- A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment
- Laptop provided
- A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
- Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
- $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
- Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
- Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth
- Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions.
- Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5%
- At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
- A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
- Code for America employees may work remotely across the US
- Code for America employees main residence must be within the US
- Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
- Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
- 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
- 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
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