Data Scientist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Important Information


* Open to US Citizens and Permanent Residents or Green Card holders with the intent to become a US Citizen.


* No F-1 or H-1B sponsorship is available.


* Candidates must have valid work authorization, without an end date.

About the Role


* The Data Utility Office (DUO) is a centralized data office housed within the Federal Reserve of Kansas City – the Federal Reserve System’s 10th District.

Our mission is to ‘Connect People to Data’.

As a Data Scientist within DUO, this position will focus on developing, deploying, maintaining, and improving upon the current and future data science products, features, and components within our portfolio.

The position will also explore the possibilities of adopting new formats of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with a particular emphasis on providing tangible value to internal functions of the Federal Reserve.

Key Activities

Maintenance and improvement of operational machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence implementations:


* Establish a detailed technical understanding of DUO’s products that leverage ML/AI – including the training datasets, model training methodologies, technical infrastructure, and model monitoring approach.


* Work collaboratively with DUO’s product owner and architect to maintain a detailed roadmap for ML/AI 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.

Development of New Machine Learning and AI Features/Products:


* Collaborate with the people and teams that DUO supports to understand their unique situations, challenges and opportunities.

Utilize the knowledge gained to support the curation of potential new opportunities, leveraging ML/AI.


* 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.

Required Qualifications


* Typically 3-6+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining ML/AI products within a large, professional or academic organizations.


* Bachelor’s degree with specialization in a techn...