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Data Scientist
Windsor Mill, MD
Job Description
We have an outstanding Contract position for a Data Scientist to join a leading Company located in the Windsor Mill, MD surrounding area.
**Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.**
Responsibilities:
- Provide support to the agency in creating a bias mitigation strategy and examine the Agency's race and ethnicity (R/E) data for consistency and completeness
- Assess each of the identified legacy AI systems for bias and develop the appropriate mitigation approach
- Collaborate with the customer to remediate or rebuild the model for compliance
- Compare the legacy and bias-mitigated models for performance, accuracy, and achievement of business objectives
- Refine and adjust the model until sufficient bias mitigation has been achieved and parity or acceptable performance with the legacy model has been achieved
- Document findings and methods used, publish code to the repository, and prepare a standard operating procedure for future use cases
- Present and communicate the intent of AI government policies and Executive Orders
- Self-starter who can responsibly and independently advance work
- Work with customer leadership at all levels and present relevant information
- All other duties as assigned or directed
Basic Hiring Criteria:
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science
- Minimum 8 years of Data Scientist experience
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- Experience with IBM AI Fairness 360 (AIF360) - preference; Machine Learning (ML); Natural Language Processing (NLP); spaCy and NLTK, as well as language models like BERT and RoBERTa, are desired
- Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NLTK, Azure ML (optional), Amazon Web Services EC2
- Proven experience analyzing data, including data quality assessment, data governance, and data protection
- Familiarity with ethical considerations related to AI, such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation
- Experience with extracting insights from large datasets to determine bias
- Excellent analytical skills to identify potential risks and propose effective solutions
- Clear communication skills to convey complex ethical and technical concepts to various partners
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Providing problem-solving skills, and proven communication in written and verbal formats to various audiences to include executive leadership
- Demonstrated an understanding of challenges in building production-worthy AI systems
- Proactively seeking guidance, clarification, and feedback
- Selected candidates must reside within two (2) hours of customer Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
- Selected candidates must be willing to work on-site at least 3 days a week
Desired Qualifications:
- Master's Degree, Advanced Degree in Computer Science, other quantitative discipline, or Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with 13+ years of experience
- Proven experience in AI ethics, governance, and compliance is a plus
- Training and/or Certification in AI ethics or related fields is a plus
- Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript and experience with ES6+ features, such as classes, and arrows demonstrating an intimate understanding of privacy, data, and model governance activities including AI risks, oversight mechanisms, documentation, and development processes
- Knowledge of the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding AI, including privacy, ethics, liability, and intellectual property laws
- Proven experience with the full system development lifecycle
- Demonstrating an understanding of challenges in building production-worthy AI systems
- Displaying an ability to manage senior stakeholders and client needs, including: building relationships with clients, approaching clients in an organized manner, delivering clear requests for information, and facilitating alignment across multiple stakeholders
- Displaying the ability to research and analyze pertinent to the customer and technical matters
- Demonstrating the ability to contribute to a positive working environment by building relationships with team members
- Collaborating with teams comprised of technical, data science, and business specialists
- Collaborating with senior leaders and coordinating roll-out and change management for new processes
[Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled]
Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
8+ years
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