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Code for America

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Government • Social Impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to improving government services and fostering resilient communities. The organization leverages technology to simplify access to food benefits, tax filing, criminal record clearance, and more, aiming to break down barriers and find real solutions for individuals across the country. Through partnerships with governments and communities, Code for America designs human-centered applications and provides consulting and advisory services to enhance social safety nets and government processes. By building tools and resources that facilitate easier benefit enrollment and tax services, Code for America strives to create a more inclusive government that works for everyone.

📋 Description

• Conduct descriptive data analysis using case, survey, and event data to identify and size problems. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to identify potential improvements • Develop and implement key metrics to measure the effectiveness and impact of our products and services • Apply AI/ML techniques in collaboration with cross-functional teams to improve the delivery of products and services • Analyze administrative and public data to estimate the impact of proposed changes. • Create and maintain dashboards and visualizations to communicate key insights to stakeholders • Build and maintain evaluation pipelines to monitor AI system performance and turn results into prompt, model, and design improvements • Clean, combine, and make sense of diverse administrative data. • Investigate the barriers people face in applying for and keeping benefits. • Work with qualitative researchers to generate hypotheses about how to help our users. • Make use of past findings internally, from agencies, and from outside researchers to help strategically guide projects. • Work with program, product, engineering, and design to identify where our analytics and AI capacity will be most impactful. • Break down, estimate, and prioritize tasks with a good architectural/systems perspective • Lead and deliver on medium to large size projects • Create and maintain technical documentation for data science projects and models • Communicate project status, risks, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor other data scientists on the team • Contribute to the development of data science best practices and standards • Other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• At least 6 years as a data scientist or equivalent • Expert in Python or R, SQL • Fluency with product analytics - defining, implementing, analyzing and communicating software product metrics. • Experience with collaborative coding tools such as Github or notebooks (RMarkdown, Hex, Google Collab, Jupyter) • Experience with Metabase or similar business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) for creating dashboards and reports for the organization • Experience with machine learning frameworks and libraries such as PyTorch, scikit-learn, Tensor Flow, etc. • Experience with large language models, knowledge of prompt engineering and working with APIs of large-scale generative AI models • Solid understanding of a wide range of statistical concepts and methods. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate findings to both technical and general audiences • Excellent collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional relationships, respond to external stakeholders needs, and facilitate effective decision-making conversations • Proven ability to work through ambiguous problems, breaking them down into their component steps • Curiosity about emerging AI tools and a commitment to using them responsibly and effectively

🏖️ Benefits

• Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another • A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment • Laptop provided • A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy • Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month • $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire • Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 • Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth • Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions. • Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% • At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage • A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage • Code for America employees may work remotely across the US • Code for America employees main residence must be within the US • Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day • Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually • 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave • 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service