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.

Skills Requirements:

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (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.

*** Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD

*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 3 days a week.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills):

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• 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.

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills):

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or 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.