Remote Data Scientist for Public Service Innovation

Energy Jobline ZR; United (WV); Remote; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Benefits

Remote work environment

PTO including holidays + your birthday

401(k) with 4% Match, immediately vest

Growth and development opportunities

Bonuses + more

Job summary

Data Surge seeks a Data Scientist to support data-driven innovation across government services. This remote role operates nationwide in the United States, handling sensitive datasets with security and ethics in mind.

You will build and deploy predictive models, clean unstructured data, and design ETL pipelines while collaborating with policy, engineering, and operations teams to deliver actionable insights and governance-aligned analytics.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied machine learning.
• Strong Python for data analysis, modeling, and pipeline development (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn).
• Experience with structured and unstructured data, data cleaning and feature engineering.
• SQL and relational databases; familiarity with ETL concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the enhancement of predictive models that estimate processing timelines for public service requests and deliver personalized status updates to end users.
• Support the development and deployment of models across new service areas, based on agency priorities.
• Collaborate with teams to expand the capabilities of intelligent help agents through integration with external data sources and applications.
• Implement data cleaning and scrubbing strategies to ensure unstructured data is accurate, appropriate, and safe for public-facing use.
• Analyze customer data, including biometric or behavioral signals, to identify reliable verification indicators.
• Help design and maintain ETL pipelines to transition from transactional systems to customer- or -centric data models.
• Communicate technical findings through visualizations, reports, or dashboards tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with policy, engineering, and operations teams to ensure analytics solutions align with mission goals and regulatory requirements.
• Support efforts around data governance, ethical AI, and responsible use of data in government settings.
• Participate in Agile workflows and contribute to continuous delivery of data science capabilities.

Tools

Python

SQL

Pandas

Scikit-learn

NumPy

ETL

Job description

Data Surge seeks a Data Scientist to support data-driven innovation across government services. This remote role operates nationwide in the United States, handling sensitive datasets with security and ethics in mind.

You will build and deploy predictive models, clean unstructured data, and design ETL pipelines while collaborating with policy, engineering, and operations teams to deliver actionable insights and governance-aligned analytics.