Senior Data Scientist (Contract) - RAG & Explainable AI

Strategic Staffing Solutions; Detroit (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions in Detroit, MI seeks a Senior Data Scientist (Consultant) for a 12-month W2 contract in a hybrid/on-site role. The candidate will lead development of production-grade RAG solutions and end-to-end AI lifecycle management, with emphasis on explainable, auditable AI in regulated environments.

Key work includes building embeddings, retrieval systems, and enterprise copilots. Strong Python, ML, and software engineering skills are required, along with experience in

Qualifications

• Production-grade ML projects with RAG
• Explainable, auditable AI in regulated environments
• Experience with AI lifecycle: ingestion, retrieval, modeling, APIs, testing
• Strong ML/statistics background

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy RAG-based retrieval systems
• Build enterprise copilots or document-grounded systems
• Evaluate retrieval quality and grounding
• Develop maintainable production-grade code

Skills

RAG architectures

Embeddings

Semantic search

Re-ranking

Prompt engineering

Vector databases

Explainability

Human-in-the-loop

Production ML

Evaluation metrics

Tools

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

PyTorch

Git

CI/CD

API development

Docker

Job description

Strategic Staffing Solutions in Detroit, MI seeks a Senior Data Scientist (Consultant) for a 12-month W2 contract in a hybrid/on-site role. The candidate will lead development of production-grade RAG solutions and end-to-end AI lifecycle management, with emphasis on explainable, auditable AI in regulated environments.

Key work includes building embeddings, retrieval systems, and enterprise copilots. Strong Python, ML, and software engineering skills are required, along with experience in