Senior AI Data Scientist – Solutions Developer
Why USAA?
The Opportunity
AI Data Solutions Scientist
in the office 4 days per week.
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What you'll do
- Gather, interpret, and manipulate structured and unstructured data to enable advanced analytical solutions for the business.
- Develop scalable, automated solutions using machine learning, simulation, and optimization to deliver business insights and business value.
- Select the appropriate modeling technique and/or technology with consideration to data limitations, application, and business needs.
- Develop and deploy models within the Model Development Control (MDC) and Model Risk Management (MRM) framework.
- Composes, and assists peers with composing, technical documents for knowledge persistence, risk management, and technical review audiences.
- Assess business needs to propose/recommend analytical and modeling projects to add business value.
- Work with business and analytics leaders to prioritize analytics and modeling problems/research efforts.
- Build and maintain a robust library of reusable, production-quality algorithms and supporting code, to ensure model development and research efforts are transparent and based on the highest quality data.
- Translate complex business request(s) into specific analytical questions, executes on the analysis and/or modeling, and then communicates outcomes to non-technical business colleagues with focus on business action and recommendations.
- Manage project milestones, risks, and impediments.
- Escalates potential issues that could limit project success or implementation.
- Develop best practices for engaging with Data Engineering and IT to deploy production-ready analytical assets consistent with modeling best practices and model risk management standards.
- Maintain expertise and awareness of cutting-edge techniques.
- Actively seeks opportunities and materials to learn new techniques, technologies, and methodologies.
- Serve as a mentor to junior data scientists in modeling, analytics, and computer science tasks.
- Participate in internal communities that drive the maintenance and transformation of data science technologies and culture.
- Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
What you have
- Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Science, Engineering, or quantitative field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience; and
- 6+ years of experience in a
predictive analytics or data analysis
OR Advanced Degree (e.g., Master's, PhD) in mathematics, computer science, statistics, science and engineering, ai, or other similar quantitative discipline and 4+ years of experience in predictive analytics or data analysis.
- 4+ years of experience in training and validating statistical, physical, machine learning, and other advanced analytics models.
- 4+ years of experience in
Python
for performing statical analysis and/or building and scoring AI/ML models
- Experience writing code that is easy to follow, well documented, and commented where necessary to explain logic (high code transparency).
- Strong experience in querying and preprocessing data from structured and/or unstructured databases using
query languages such as SQL, HQL, NoSQL,
etc.
- Demonstrated skill in performing ad-hoc analytics using descriptive, diagnostic, and inferential statistics and understanding real-world constraints such as latency, cost, and reliability in AI solution designs.
- Ability to assess and articulate regulatory implications and expectations of distinct modeling efforts across risk stripes, including experience in the documentation and
statistical validation of models
for risk management.
- Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated with
classical supervised modeling
for prediction such as linear/logistic regression, discriminant analysis, support vector machines, decision trees, forest models, etc.
- Advanced experience with the concepts and technologies associated
with unsupervised modeling
such as k-means clustering, hierarchical/agglomerative clustering, neighbors algorithms, DBSCAN, etc.
- Expertise in LLMs and agentic systems development with
frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, AgentCore, VertexAI, MCP,
or others, with proven experience including prompt engineering, tuning and post-training techniques, multi-agent systems, agent optimization and tool use, RAG and context optimization, and observability and monitoring.
- MLOps Integration experience in facilitating engineering implementation of production scaled AI solutions in partnership with dedicated AI Engineers in cloud environments such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience communicating analytical and modeling results to non-technical business partners with emphasis on business recommendations and actionable applications of results.
- Experience guiding and mentoring junior technical staff in business interactions and model building.
What sets you apart
- Financial services, insurance, banking, or other highly regulated industry experience.
- Experience with cloud-native application development and modernization initiatives.
- US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner
Compensation range
USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.
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