GenAI & Data Science Associate

IBM; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking an Associate Data Scientist in Durham, NC to tackle business problems using statistics, ML, and data science techniques. You will contribute to generative AI and agentic AI workflows, working with Python, R, and TensorFlow on IBM tools and AI application suites.

You’ll collaborate across diverse teams, design experiments, build AI workflows, and communicate insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem solvers encouraged.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in mathematics, statistics, computer science, algorithms, and analytical reasoning.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, SQL, or R.
• Foundational understanding of predictive modeling, prescriptive modeling, statistical methods, machine learning, GenAI and Agentic AI.
• Willingness to travel up to 100%, based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cleanse, join, and analyze structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for analytics, ML, 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 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 DBAs.

Skills

Python

SQL

R

Statistics

Machine Learning

GenAI

Agentic AI

Analytical thinking

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

IBM is seeking an Associate Data Scientist in Durham, NC to tackle business problems using statistics, ML, and data science techniques. You will contribute to generative AI and agentic AI workflows, working with Python, R, and TensorFlow on IBM tools and AI application suites.

You’ll collaborate across diverse teams, design experiments, build AI workflows, and communicate insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Strong problem solvers encouraged.