Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist in CPSC's Analytics Center of Excellence, you'll transform raw information into meaningful insights that help protect consumers nationwide. One moment they're wrangling data-acquiring, cleaning, and improving the quality of key datasets-and the next they're experimenting with machine learning and AI techniques to spot emerging product-safety risks before they become problems.

The Data Scientist will design and implement advanced statistical and AI/ML solutions focused on extracting actionable insights, evaluating model performance, and leveraging semantic analysis techniques to enhance product safety decision-making. This role emphasizes data quality, performance, and interoperability in modern cloud environments, enabling CPSC's strategic acceleration toward preventative analytics for product safety. The Data Scientist: Designs and deploys advanced statistical solutions to generate actionable insights that strengthen product-safety decisions. Applies semantic analysis to extract patterns from diverse data and communicates findings through clear visualizations and narratives. Develops algorithms, modeling standards, and team processes; reviews technical work to ensure quality and consistency. Prepares and transforms structured and unstructured data; applies statistical, ML, and NLP methods to support agency analytics. Builds and maintains modern data science applications, pipelines, dashboards, and tools for CPSC-wide use. Ensures model and application quality, including accuracy, transparency, equity, and performance; clearly communicates limitations. Produces reports and presentations; engages stakeholders and translates complex analysis for technical and non-technical audiences. Maintains cutting-edge knowledge of data science practices and represents the agency in professional and government data-science forums.