Data Scientist
HYBRID
Seattle, WA
Come join one of Pacific Northwest's Best Places to work! Our culture at Teleion embodies the spirit of a startup with a sense of ownership and an employee-led business model. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it!
As our Data Scientist, you will collaborate closely with operations and program teams to drive data analytics planning and execution. Key responsibilities include performing data profiling, conducting dimensional feature analysis, and applying a hypothesis-driven approach to uncover critical insights. This role will play a pivotal part in AI initiatives, ensuring that data-driven insights contribute to impactful project outcomes.
Focused on maximizing project value, you will identify key drivers of operational challenges and opportunities. You will work with cross-functional teams to pinpoint relevant data for interventions, assess their impact, and establish measures, learnings, and evaluation metrics.
You will build and maintain strong partnerships with our client’s business and technical teams, serving as a trusted expert in data analytics. You will guide project planning, identify functional and non-functional requirements, and support the development of innovative solutions in data visualization, predictive modeling, and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Understand customer requirements for how program data is used to make decisions. Including process mapping, workflow optimization, and technology enablement.
- Assist internal partners with analytics strategy planning, technical architecture, and ensure teams follow best practices regarding legal and information security policies.
- Apply strong data science expertise and systems analysis methodology to help guide solution analysis, with consideration of both technical and non-technical implications and trade-offs.
- Extract data from various data sources; perform exploratory data analysis, cleanse, transform, and aggregate data.
- Use statistical, machine learning techniques to build models that deliver business needs while promoting and demonstrating the value of sophisticated analytics techniques.
- Pilot development of AI initiatives including Retrieval Augmented Generation applications, model selection, iterative prompt engineering and fine-tuning based on accuracy and user-feedback, monitoring and governance.
- Collaborate with peer data scientists, statisticians, and business analysts to identify business data problems and implement effective solutions.
- Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and optimize data gathering techniques.
- Lead and own technical engagement with identified program teams, developing positive relationships based on trust, transparency, and delivery.
- Coordinate and lead demos, user acceptance reviews while working with the technical team on the creation of design documents and artifacts.
- May drive the project delivery of smaller projects, lead responsibility for multiple analysis work streams within projects of significant size and impact.
- Collaborate with other staff to deliver new, innovative solutions to the foundation data users by providing thought leadership while facilitating participation in data communities at the foundation.
- Other tasks as assigned
Experience:
- Master’s degree in Data Science, Data Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent working experience preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in a Data Science role, with advanced work in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field preferred.
- 5+ years working in a customer-facing role interacting with business users, Data Analysts, and Data Scientists.
- 5+ years using R or Python to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
- Experience independently exploring quick proof-of-concept solutions using data science, machine learning, and/or AI
- Experience with Databricks for collaborative data science development workspaces and notebook-driven scripting is a plus.
- Proven track record of being part of a small team delivering efficient data solutions or services designed around diverse customer needs.
- Knowledge of a variety of ML techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) as well as statistical techniques (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and their real-world advantages and/or drawbacks.
- A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques. Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on data and domain exploration.
- Familiarity with NLP concepts, large language models and prompt engineering.
- Knowledge of ethics in AI and responsible AI development
- Experience working in cloud environments for data science workloads.
- Demonstrated experience in project delivery with an agile development methodology.
Salary Range: $120,000-$150,000
Teleion offers full benefits, PTO, holiday, 401(k). See how other employees have reviewed us on Glassdoor. We are excited to announce we have made in on Seattle Business Magazines “Washingtons Best Place to Work” for the 4th year in a row.
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