s and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor H1b candidates at this time.

Role: Data Scientist (PHD)

W2 or 1099 only

Location: Baltimore, MD (Hybrid-2days/ week)

PhD required

Able to go to Baltimore, MD

2 days in a week from office.

3 years contract

3-4 weeks to get public trust clearance.

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications):

• Bachelor degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science
• Minimum 8 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 SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

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