Description

Formed in 2011, INADEV is focused on its founding principle to build innovative customer-centric solutions incredibly fast, secure, and at scale. We deliver world-class digital experiences to some of the largest federal agencies and commercial companies. Our technical expertise and innovations are comprised of codeless automation, identity intelligence, immersive technology, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), virtualization, and digital transformation.

We are seeking an accomplished Data Scientist with experience in AI ethics, governance, and compliance to lead bias mitigation strategy and support compliance with Federal AI policy.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

• 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 AI policy 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 of the organization and present relevant information.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Requirements

  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or Information Science
• Minimum 8 Year (s) of experience as Data Scientist.
• Experience with IBM AI Fairness 360  AIF360).
• Experience in Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), spaCy and NLTK, as well as language models like BERT and RoBERTa, are highly desired.
• Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NLTK, Amazon Web Services EC2, and optionally Azure ML.
• 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.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript and experience with ES6+ features, such as classes, arrow.
• Demonstrated 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.
• Demonstrated 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
  • 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.

STANDOUT SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Master’s or other advanced degree in Computer Science, other quantitative discipline.
• Proven experiences in AI ethics, governance, and compliance.
• Training and/or Certification in AI ethics or related fields.???