Data Scientist

Title: DATA SCIENTIST Start: 06+ Months (High possibility of Extension) Type: W2 w/ benefits OR 1099 Location: Woodlawn, MD (Hybrid) s / Holders Rate: USD 80 - 90 per hour Position Description: 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 SSA 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:
•  ship or Authorization to work in US required
•  Travel: