Role : AI Data Scientist

Location : Woodlawn, MD

Hybrid role

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 Year (s) of Data Scientist experience
• 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, 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.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

*** Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of Agency Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 3 days a week.

MORE (Required Skills)

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript and experience with ES6 features, such as classes, arrow Demonstrating intimate understanding of privacy, data, and model governance activities including AI risks, oversight mechanisms, documentation, 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 client in an organized manner, and delivering clear requests for information, facilitating alignment across multiple stakeholders;
• Displaying ability to research and analyze pertinent to the customer and technical matters.
• Demonstrating 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.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience level:

• 10 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Python: 1 year (Preferred)
• SQL: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Catonsville, MD 21228 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Catonsville, MD 21228: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Catonsville, MD 21228