Data Scientist

Job Details

Centurion is hiring a Data Scientist to support one of our clients out of the Woodlawn, MD area. Selected candidate must reside within 2 hours of headquarters and be willing to work on-site at least 3 days a week.

Key Required Skills:

• Experience with AI ethics, frameworks, and technologies

Position Description:

• Provide support to the agency is 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 objective.
• 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 leadership at all levels and present relevant information.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

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.

Required Skills:

• 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.

Desired Skills:

• Master Degree, Advanced Degree in Computer Science, other quantitative discipline.
• Proven experiences in AI ethics, governance, and compliance is a plus.
• Training and/or Certification in AI ethics or related fields is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science with 13+ years of experience
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

Position Details:

US Citizenship or Authorization to work in US required

Travel: < 10% (CONUS)

Centurion Consulting Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE M/F/D/V

• No third parties or subcontractors

 Centurion Consulting Group, LLC

 06/01/2024

 Woodlawn,MD