Data Scientist - Fellowship (DE)

Tech Impact; Delaware; Hybrid; USD 47,279,232 - 67,337,088; Part time

Job summary

Tech Impact's Data Innovation Lab in Delaware seeks a Data Scientist for a fellowship program. The position is hybrid and runs July 2026 to December 2026, with production-grade analytics, ML, and statistical inference as core delivery responsibilities.

You will collaborate with partners to design, develop, and deploy solutions for social good, generate hypotheses, build models, and contribute to impactful outputs and potential publications.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in a quantitative field as listed.
• Strong coding skills in Python / R / Julia.
• Delivery of complex analytical projects and data work.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to identify trends and patterns.
• Collaborate to design, develop, and deploy production-grade ML solutions.
• Propose and implement machine learning methods for social good.
• Communicate findings to clients and stakeholders.
• Work across projects to generate hypotheses and build models.

Skills

Python

R

Julia

SQL

Git

Azure

Education

Master's degree or above in statistics, mathematics, computer science, psychology, public health, or related quantitative field

Tools

GitHub

Azure

SQL

Job description

Data Innovation Lab

Data Scientist

• Join an innovative, like-minded team that focuses on your personal growth and accelerating your career!
• Use your skills and experience for social good.
• This is an hourly contract position.
• 20 hours per week.
• $40/Hour
• Fellowship program runs from July 2026 to December 2026.

About Us

Tech Impact's Data Innovation Lab (Tech Impact) exists to engage local and global organizations in an ongoing conversation around the use of advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence to fast-forward research ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.

Our mission is to develop novel data and analytics approaches that can disrupt the status quo and fundamentally alter a current issue or problem. Using best practices, diverse industry experience, access to technical and scientific talent, and core technologies, the lab will solve community-based issues while attracting national talent to the region and providing work for the technical and innovative talent of Delaware.

For more information, visit our website.

About the Opportunity

Tech Impact is looking for Data Scientists to join our Fellowship Program in Delaware. The Fellowship Program will run from July 2026 to December 2026 and is a hybrid role. Along with our Lead Data Scientist, our Data Scientists serve as our primary delivery resource for consulting, study-design, analytics/ML and statistical inferencing.

The Fellowship is intended for technologists with a deep technical skill set and a strong desire to serve their communities. As aData Scientist,you will work with our partners to design, develop, and deploy production-grade solutions to social good problems. You will be expected to collaborate across projects to generate hypotheses, develop models, and create products. Your work will directly lead to improving the lives of people in communities in Delaware and beyond.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Analyze data for trends and patterns through both exploratory and hypothesis-driven approaches.
• Organize and communicate findings to clients and stakeholders.
• Select and apply analytical techniques and modeling methods aimed at supporting problem sets focused on data used for social good.
• Propose tangible machine learning solutions, helping to build products that advance the Lab’s goals.
• Serve as an authority in machine learning data education/application amongst clients/stakeholders.
• Tactically develop production-grade models while thinking strategically about public impact/relevance.
• Contribute to innovative projects, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation, and/or experimentation.
• Serve as a liaison between government, corporate, community, and non-profit teams to drive the application of machine learning solutions into real-world applications.
• When relevant, support authorship of academic papers, presentations, white papers, and other publications by conducting analyses and producing visualizations.

More About You

Our preferred candidate has a Master's Degree or above in statistics, mathematics, computer science, psychology, public health, or another related quantitative field. However, undergraduates or individuals who have relevant training will also be considered.

In addition, we require strong skills, experience, and knowledge in the following:

• Commitment to leveraging data for social good.
• Hands-on coding experience in Python / R / Julia or any other open-source programming language
• Relevant delivery of complex analytical projects
• Working with version control platforms, especially Git / GitHub
• Ability to work closely with other Data Lab members to perform ETL using SQL.
• A self-motivated thinker that works well independently and on collaborative teams.
• Ability to translate complex data science jargon into meaningful, actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to organize and prioritize work efficiently and effectively.
• A preference for experience working in cloud environments (preference for those with Azure experience)
• A preference for experience handling confidential data and information with integrity in a shared cloud environment.
• An eagerness to stay up to date on new technologies and methodologies to level up your skillset.

Employment Policy

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Tech Impact embraces diversity and does not discriminate in employment based on age, race, color, creed, sex, gender, identity, religion, marital status, veteran’s status, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.

• ADA Specifications: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
• Requires the ability to speak, hear, see and use a computer and other office-related equipment.
• Also requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, stand, stoop, crawl and lift to 50 lbs.
• May require local and regional travel.

Department: Data Lab

This is a contract position