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.