Remote Data Scientist: Innovation Lab & Analytics Leader

American Institutes for Research; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 114,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

American Institutes for Research seeks a Data Scientist to join the Project Success and Innovation (PSI) team and the Employment and Economic Opportunity Program (EEOP). You will design, implement, and scale analytics and ML/AI solutions, translate findings for clients, and contribute to studies across AIR’s education, health, and social policy work.

Responsibilities span developing reusable analytic tools, leading end‑to‑end quantitative workflows, maintaining reproducible environments, and

Qualifications

• Master's or doctoral degree in a quantitative field with experience in causal inference and statistical modeling.
• Experience with complex survey data, large-scale datasets, and data quality assurance.
• Experience applying quantitative methods to education, health, or social policy questions.
• Experience or familiarity with machine learning and AI methods, including large language models in research.
• Interest in building tools others use and supporting reproducible research practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain analytic tools, libraries, templates, and pipelines used across AIR projects.
• Document training materials and onboarding guides to teach modern tooling.
• Support teams adopting new tools and workflows and troubleshoot recurring issues.
• Prototype ML/AI applications, including large language models, and assess responsible use at AIR.
• Maintain deployed tools by triaging issues and collecting user feedback.
• Contribute to plans, timelines, and progress tracking for PSI activities and communicate with leadership.
• Lead quantitative analyses on research projects and manage complex datasets.
• Draft analytic sections of client reports and translate findings for non-technical audiences.
• Track deliverables and contribute to proposals.

Skills

R

Python

Stata

Git

Reproducible research

Literate programming

Communication

Technical writing

Education

Master's or PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Quarto

R Markdown

Jupyter

Job description

American Institutes for Research seeks a Data Scientist to join the Project Success and Innovation (PSI) team and the Employment and Economic Opportunity Program (EEOP). You will design, implement, and scale analytics and ML/AI solutions, translate findings for clients, and contribute to studies across AIR’s education, health, and social policy work.

Responsibilities span developing reusable analytic tools, leading end‑to‑end quantitative workflows, maintaining reproducible environments, and