The Center for Data Science at RTI International, one of the nation’s largest independent, nonprofit scientific research organizations, is seeking an Data Scientist with skills in data mining, statistical learning, predictive modeling, mathematical and simulation modeling, forecasting, data visualization, text analytics, social media analytics, and natural language processing to work on projects in the domains of public health, health care, health communications, global health, social science research, sample surveys, engineering, and the environment. The successful candidate will work with a growing team of RTI data scientists and domain experts on government and commercial analytics projects and also on projects to build internal tools and capacity.
Our goal is to solve problems and inform decision-making through innovation, collaboration, and technical expertise.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a team of data scientists, statisticians, computer scientists, and subject matter experts to solve problems using data science approaches, techniques, and methods
- Participate in projects, tasks, and staff in activities related to data integration, data cleaning, descriptive analyses, exploratory analyses, predictive modeling, data mining, text analytics, social media analytics, social network analysis, rapid prototyping, and data visualization
- Collect, store, access, and analyze data from a variety of sources
- Develop static and interactive data visualizations
- Develop predictive models and simulations using a variety of software and tools.
- Assist in expanding predictive analytics business: participate in meetings with clients (internal and external), assist in framing projects and designing solutions based on client needs and problems to be solved
- Communicate results through presentations, reports, tools, and data visualizations for clients, internal staff, scientific journals, and other publications
- Collaborate with teams in proposal writing
- Participate in professional development and scientific stature efforts