[Hiring] Senior Data Scientist @ICA.ai

Role Description

ICA.ai is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and deliver data science and AI solutions for complex healthcare, federal health, and regulated-data environments. This role requires strong technical depth, practical judgment, and the ability to take ownership from ambiguous problem definition through evaluation and production. A Public Trust Clearance is required for the role, and we will work with you to obtain this.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build machine-learning, analytics, NLP, and generative-AI solutions using structured and unstructured data.
• Develop multi-stage workflows that transform complex source data—including documents and free text—into reliable, actionable outputs.
• Build and evaluate downstream data-science solutions such as predictive models, prioritization, classification, analytics, and decision-support workflows.
• Establish rigorous approaches to data quality, experimentation, model evaluation, validation, monitoring, and human review.
• Diagnose weak-performing approaches, identify root causes, and redesign or abandon solutions when evidence does not support deployment.
• Design solutions with appropriate consideration for provenance, lineage, privacy, reproducibility, data governance, and AI governance.
• Work with technical teams, domain experts, clients, and leadership to translate complex requirements into defensible technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent work experience in Data Science or related field.
• Significant hands-on experience delivering data science or machine-learning systems beyond prototypes.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with solid foundations in statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and data analysis.
• Meaningful experience working with unstructured data, such as document processing, information extraction, NLP, text analytics, or LLM-based workflows.
• Demonstrated ownership of technically complex projects, including decisions around data, architecture, evaluation, failure analysis, and production deployment.
• Ability to understand how upstream data quality and extraction errors affect downstream models and decisions.
• Strong analytical judgment and willingness to challenge assumptions when results do not support them.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, government, regulated industries, or similarly high-accountability environments is strongly preferred.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and have lived in the US for 3 or more consecutive years.
• Must be able and willing to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

Benefits

• We invest in our team members so you can live your best life professionally and personally, offering a competitive salary and benefits.
• Health Insurance - 100% employer-paid premiums – ICA covers the full cost of one of three offered medical plans.
• Dental Insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Health Spending Account.
• Flexible Spending Account.
• Life and Disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays).
• Education and Professional Development Assistance.
• Remote work from anywhere within the continental United States.

Location & Telework

This is a remote position following Eastern Standard Time (EST). Candidates residing in the DMV area preferred.

Additional Information

ICA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability status, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.