Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Code for America as a Senior Data Scientist and leverage your expertise to uncover user needs, inform product development, measure program effectiveness, and communicate insights to cross-functional teams. You will contribute to complex projects, applying rigorous data analysis and developing predictive models. Collaborate with researchers, designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure insights translate into actionable improvements. Work within one of Code for America's programs: Criminal Justice, Tax Benefits, or Social Safety Net. The ideal candidate possesses a strong data science background, experience in cross-functional environments, and excellent communication and collaboration skills. This role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• At least 4 years experience as a data scientist or equivalent
• Expert in Python or R
• Expert in SQL
• Knowledge of dbt for data transformation and modeling within data warehouses
• Experience with Metabase or similar business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) for creating dashboards and reports for key non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, scikit-learn, Tensor Flow, etc
• 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 stakeholder needs, and facilitate effective decision-making conversations
• Proven ability to work through ambiguous problems, breaking them down into their component steps

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
• When appropriate, apply AI/ML techniques in collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve the delivery of products and services
• Create and maintain dashboards and visualizations to communicate key insights to stakeholders
• Break down, estimate, and prioritize tasks with a good architectural/systems perspective
• Reliably own 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
• Contribute to a positive and collaborative team culture
• Contribute to the development of data science best practices and standards
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Personal experience with the social safety net, or other mission-relevant government services
• Experience with large language models and fine-tuning pre-trained models
• Knowledge of prompt engineering and working with APIs of large-scale generative AI models, such as the GPT, Gemini, Claude, or Llama model families
• Experience with Google Analytics, Google Ads, or other marketing tools
• Experience with government data

Benefits

• Laptop provided
• $700 remote environment setup; $200 stipend and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy
• Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
• $1000 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire
• Up to $1000 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $2000
• Employees under 3 years are eligible for a 100% employer match of up to 3% of employee contribution
• Employees with 3+ years are eligible for an additional 50% employer contribution over 3%, to a maximum of 5%
• Full benefits package with options up to 100% coverage toward select medical, dental, and vision plans
• Employer contributes up to 80% of the cost towards dependent and family 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, a minimum of 16 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
• Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually
• Competitive paid parental and family leave
• 4 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years of service, with an option of up to 4 additional weeks of unpaid time away