Data Scientist, AI & Language Models for Public Policy

Sinews Mti; Madrid; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF in Madrid, Spain is seeking a data science professional to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects. You will frame questions with experts, analyse evidence, and deliver findings. This is a hands-on consulting role: discuss needs, present approaches and results to mixed audiences, and contribute to proposals.

You will join an established team and work across diverse projects. You will collaborate with colleagues across technical disciplines to document work, ensure

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Python for analysis and modelling, including common data and machine learning libraries.
• Solid grounding in statistics and ML, including regression, forecasting, validation and performance measures.
• Familiarity with large language models in analysis or prototyping, including prompting and risk awareness.
• Experience preparing imperfect data, building reproducible analyses, and writing maintainable code with version control and testing.
• Ability to take an ambiguous question from discovery to working demonstration and explain uncertainty.
• Fluent written and spoken English for technical and non-technical audiences.
• A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Speak with subject matter experts and clients to define the problem, success measures, data needs and an analytical approach.
• Prepare and analyse data, develop and evaluate models or prototypes using statistical methods, forecasting, ML or language models where suitable.
• Present findings, assumptions and limitations to subject matter experts, clients and nontechnical audiences, invite challenge and adapt the work to feedback.
• Collaborate with colleagues across technical disciplines to document work, make results reproducible and develop prototypes into reliable solutions.
• Contribute technical ideas, estimates and evidence to proposals, and manage work across several concurrent projects.
• Share methods and reusable approaches with colleagues across the data science team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Machine learning

Language models

Data wrangling

Version control

Testing

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

Git

SQL editor

Job description

ICF in Madrid, Spain is seeking a data science professional to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects. You will frame questions with experts, analyse evidence, and deliver findings. This is a hands-on consulting role: discuss needs, present approaches and results to mixed audiences, and contribute to proposals.

You will join an established team and work across diverse projects. You will collaborate with colleagues across technical disciplines to document work, ensure