Overview
Senior Data Scientist for American Institutes for Research will report to our Arlington, VA HQ loc and may telecommute. Collaborate with researchers to acquire, process, and understand data that clients need to make better decisions. Design, validate, and visualize data-driven models, including machine learning approaches, to understand social and behavioral phenomena. Explore new approaches to behavioral and social science research and evaluation. Collect, parse, and analyze text and other data from websites and other sources using APIs and custom code. Create structured datasets from large, unstructured data that describe social phenomena. Support and collaborate with experts to pioneer new approaches to research by integrating diverse data sources. Develop new or implement existing algorithms for record linkage across disparate datasets. Use programming languages and analytic tools to develop models that predict, describe, and explain social behavior and outcomes. Analyze and interpret experimental data. Communicate findings technical and non-technical collaborators. Document all work to support an open research community. Present work outputs using static and dynamic visualization, slide decks, and written deliverables. Author academic/white papers. Lead efforts to secure external funds from federal, state, local and private sources to support research, development, and service programs. Manage project budgets and personnel. Represent AIR in community, academic, and policy arenas. Engage in developing and implementing AIR’s quality assurance processes. Develop and train others on best practices for data processing, analytics, and documentation methodology and results. Little domestic travel may be involved. May undergo background checks. Requires communication skills. Wage range: $133,000 to $150,000 annually. Must have Masters in Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Computational Social Science or related field, 2 years relevant data science exp, and required skills. Alternatively, may hold PhD in Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Computational Social Science or related field, and required skills. Requires skills (2 years via exp or coursework) in: statistical and computational; R, Perl, Python, or Java; and relational DBs, SQL, or NoSQL DBs. Apply at www.air.org; ref. Job 12759. EOE