Senior Data Scientist: Real-World AI for Social Impact

Zest for Tech; Washington; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Generous PTO

Job summary

Zest for Tech in Washington DC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop AI products with social impact. You will lead model development, training, evaluation, and production deployment in collaboration with engineering and product teams.

You will apply modern ML techniques, emphasize rigorous experimentation, and drive measurable improvements using Python and PyTorch in a hands-on, office-based role.

Qualifications

• Experience in data science or applied machine learning.
• Hands-on ML training, fine-tuning, and validation.
• Proficiency with Python and modern ML frameworks.
• Rigorous, detail-oriented approach to experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, and evaluate machine learning models for real world use cases.
• Apply AI techniques such as classification, document understanding, and extraction to production systems.
• Experiment with and adapt models from open source and vendor ecosystems.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to deploy and iterate on models.
• Improve automation and drive measurable system improvements.

Skills

Data science

Applied ML

Model validation

Experimentation

Python programming

Tools

Python

PyTorch

ML tooling

Data infrastructure

Job description

Zest for Tech in Washington DC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop AI products with social impact. You will lead model development, training, evaluation, and production deployment in collaboration with engineering and product teams.

You will apply modern ML techniques, emphasize rigorous experimentation, and drive measurable improvements using Python and PyTorch in a hands-on, office-based role.