Job Details

AI & Emerging Technology Researcher

No Corp to Corp or 3rd party Recruiter submittals, please. W2 Contract with Full Time hours

Hours: 8:00 AM until 5:00 pm w/ 1-hour lunch

Days: Monday through Friday

Term of Contract: Long-term/ongoing with no end date and could last up to 3 years.

Pay Range OR Rate: 58.36-80.00 per hour.

PTO, Sick Pay, and Holiday Pay are offered.

Position Scope:

Accelerates and supports the ongoing activities in the field of IT Innovation and Emerging Technologies. Identifies and defines applications of emerging technologies to address business relevant challenges.

Designs and implements prototypes of applications including front- / back-end and machine learning components. Works with different company business units to understand the business demands with respect to Innovation and Emerging Technologies. Conducts advanced software engineering, analytical tasks, data preparation, machine learning models to enable company to improve its IT products, services and processes

Position Responsibilities:

Analyzes business critical data / processes and recommends improvements / highlights opportunities. Works with complex data / optimization / design problems and conducts advanced analytics tasks.

Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of data sources and data gathering techniques.

Works with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.

Works in collaboration with internal and external teams to identify opportunities for innovation and transition them to prototype and industrialization phase.

Develops custom data models and algorithms.

Coordinates with different functional teams to implement solutions.

Serves as internal consultant to other developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development.

Advises developers and engineers on emerging IT technologies and assists the team in process matters as related to development/support and provides the necessary on the job training and development of associates/contractors within the team.

Maintains accurate, meaningful and updated technical and non-technical documentation pertaining to all aspects of area(s) of responsibility.

Clearly communicates requirements, progress, goals and results to business partners with various levels of technical knowledge.

Performs other duties as assigned by the Operations Supervisor.

Education: Bachelor degree in computer science, engineering, science, mathematics/statistics or related field. Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in computer science, mathematics/statistics or a related field (preferred).

Experience: 5+ years prior experience working in IT / software engineering with machine learning development

5+ years of knowledge of in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, C++, C# 5+ years of experience in problem solving skills with an emphasis on IT product development

3+ years of knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques and their real-world advantages/drawbacks

3+ years of knowledge of a software engineering and architecture

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