Analyst I, Data Science Excellenc

Are you curious, resilient, independent, and always interested in learning and working on state-of-the‑art modeling techniques, applying the best science to deliver business value? The USDS Data Science Excellence team is looking for a Data Science Analyst to research, design, and build major modeling innovations and pioneer model sophistication across our retail insurance products.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build gradient‑boosted decision tree models at large scale (parallel training on large datasets in EMR clusters), including problem framing, solution research, data sourcing, EDA, feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, etc.
• Research new modeling techniques for structured and unstructured data, as well as processes and tools for machine learning.
• Own “pioneer projects from research through proof of value and product ownership; identify and remove obstacles to deployment in partnership with infrastructure and design tea...