Responsible AI Data Scientist: Fairness & Explainability

Empower; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Data Scientist to support its Responsible AI strategy by developing, applying, and validating methods to evaluate generative AI, agentic AI, and other AI-enabled business applications.

You will work with AI/ML engineers, data engineers, security engineers, architects, governance partners, and business stakeholders to ensure practical, repeatable evaluation aligned with business and regulatory needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field and 2–5 years of data science or AI evaluation experience.
• Experience evaluating generative AI or large language models and AI-enabled solutions.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI concepts including fairness, explainability, and safety.

Responsibilities

• Apply statistical analysis and experimentation to evaluate AI-enabled applications.
• Develop and maintain Responsible AI measures, benchmarks, and evaluation criteria.
• Evaluate AI systems for fairness, bias, explainability, transparency, hallucination, safety, reliability, and robustness.
• Use results to support design, testing, and ongoing assessment of AI applications.
• Establish performance baselines and identify changes in model behavior over time.
• Design proofs of concept for new Responsible AI evaluation approaches.
• Assess emerging Responsible AI tools and methodologies for validity and applicability.
• Support integration of Responsible AI testing into development and governance processes.
• Partner with engineering, governance, and business teams to align evaluation methods with use cases.
• Create model cards, evaluation reports, and related guidance.
• Communicate findings and risks to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Contribute to Responsible AI training, applied research, and industry engagement.
• Monitor emerging AI evaluation methods relevant to Responsible AI.

Skills

Python programming

SQL skills

Experiment design

Statistical analysis

AI evaluation

Communication

Independent work

Team collaboration

Data analysis tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science

Tools

Git

Job description

Empower is seeking a Data Scientist to support its Responsible AI strategy by developing, applying, and validating methods to evaluate generative AI, agentic AI, and other AI-enabled business applications.

You will work with AI/ML engineers, data engineers, security engineers, architects, governance partners, and business stakeholders to ensure practical, repeatable evaluation aligned with business and regulatory needs.