Job Description

Centurion is looking for a hybrid Senior Data Scientist supporting a client in the DC area. Candidates need to be local and willing to come on site as needed.
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Qualifications:

• At least six years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining AI/ML products within a large,
  professional, or academic organizations.
• Bachelor's degree with specialization in a technology related field (Computer Science preferred, Master’s preferred) from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
• Advanced proficiency in coding and experience in python and several other programming languages.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding in statistical modeling and data analysis techniques, platforms, and software.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced knowledge of AI/ML, NLP and Generative AI technologies, frameworks, and solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud data platforms, technologies, frameworks, and solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional teams and communicate effectively with both
  technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on experience design, developing and deploying AI/ML products into a cloud environment.
• Proficiency of existing and emerging trends within the AWS cloud environment
• Expert proficiency in Python data science development.
• Advanced experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques like Text Normalization, Named Entity Recognition, and Part-of-Speech (POS). Familiarity with more advanced techniques such as word embeddings. Specific experience popular AI/ML frameworks such as Transformer, Scikit-learn, SpaCy, XGBoost.

Capabilities: 

• Development of New Machine Learning and AI Features/Products:
• Collaborate with teams to understand their unique situations, challenges and opportunities. Utilize the knowledge gained to
  support the curation of potential new opportunities, leveraging AI/ML and Generative AI technologies.
• Take a hands-on, iterative approach in researching, designing, and building new machine learning and AI
  features/products.
• Identify the most valuable models and methodologies, implement and train the models, and contribute to their deployment into the production environment.
• Maintenance and improvement of operational machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence implementations:
• Establish a detailed technical understanding of existing products that leverage AI/ML and Generative AI technologies including the training datasets, model training methodologies, technical infrastructure, and model monitoring approach.
• Work collaboratively with product owner and architect to maintain a detailed roadmap for AI/ML epics, features, and
  stories organizing the tangible work needed to maintain and improve upon our products.
• Monitor accuracy and precision of models over time.
• Lead efforts to retrain models by expanding upon underlying training datasets, introducing new features, and working with others to ensure training data is of highest quality.

Position Details: 

• US Citizenship or Authorization to work in US required
• Travel: < 10% (CONUS)
• Centurion Consulting Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE M/F/D/V
• No third parties or subcontractors