Associate Data Scientist: GenAI & Analytics Innovator

IBM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Professional development

Job summary

IBM invites applicants for an Associate Data Scientist role as part of its university hires program in California. The position focuses on solving business challenges with statistics, ML, and data science techniques while contributing to generative AI and agentic AI workflows using Python, R, and IBM tools.

You'll collaborate with diverse teams, design experiments, and deliver insights to stakeholders while growing through IBM's AI-driven learning platform and certifications.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in mathematics, statistics, computer science, algorithms, and analytical reasoning.
• Familiarity with programming language such as Python, SQL, R, or similar.
• Foundational understanding of predictive modeling, prescriptive modeling, statistical methods, machine learning, Gen AI and Agentic AI.
• Basic understanding of cloud environments, data platforms, or AI platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or similar.
• Strong technical and analytical abilities, problem solving, debugging, troubleshooting, teamwork, and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 100%, based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cleanse, join, and analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for analytics, machine learning, GenAI and agentic AI workflows.
• Implement and validate predictive, prescriptive, statistical, and machine learning models with a focus on measurable client and business outcomes.
• Design experiments, features, prompts, evaluation datasets, metrics, and tests to assess model outputs, workflow accuracy, reliability, bias, and business value.
• Build GenAI, RAG, and agentic AI workflows by evaluating retrieval quality, grounding, generated responses, tool-use outcomes, and end-to-end agent performance.
• Work in an Agile, collaborative environment with data scientists, data engineers, AI engineers, consultants, architects, and database administrators to bring analytical rigor and responsible AI practices to client challenges.
• Communicate with internal and external clients to understand business needs, select appropriate modeling techniques, and explain assumptions, limitations, and recommendations.
• Evaluate modeling results and present insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, translating findings into practical actions.

Skills

Mathematics & Statistics

Programming (Python, SQL, R)

GenAI & Agentic AI

Cloud & AI platforms (AWS/Azure/GC)

Analytical problem solving

Willingness to travel up to 100%

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

Git

Job description

IBM invites applicants for an Associate Data Scientist role as part of its university hires program in California. The position focuses on solving business challenges with statistics, ML, and data science techniques while contributing to generative AI and agentic AI workflows using Python, R, and IBM tools.

You'll collaborate with diverse teams, design experiments, and deliver insights to stakeholders while growing through IBM's AI-driven learning platform and certifications.