Senior Data Scientist (Remote, Continental United States) at ICA, Inc. in Arlington, VA

Job 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.

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.

Requirements

• 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
• UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AI ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: All application materials must be your own original work, and interviews must be completed independently. The use of AI-generated content or AI-assisted technologies during the application or interview process is prohibited unless interviewers provide explicit permission for specific activities during a live technical assessment. Any unauthorized use of AI will result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Skills

Required

• Strong Python and SQL skills

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