Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Code for America is a nonprofit organization focused on improving government services through technology. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to manage and analyze complex data, develop AI-driven solutions, and communicate insights that drive service improvements. The role involves leading projects, mentoring team members, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the effectiveness of government services.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Personal experience with the justice system, social safety net, workforce training, or other mission-relevant government services
- Fluency in languages other than English
- Experience with tax policy and data
- Knowledge of dbt for data transformation and modeling with data warehouses
- Experience with Postgres and cloud-based data warehousing (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake)
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
- Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday
- Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours
- 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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