AI/ML Engineer SME (CMS)

General Dynamics Information Technology

1d • $182,750 - $247,250 • Remote

About The Position

GDIT is under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to design, develop, engineer, implement, enhance, maintain algorithms to detect and prevent potential fraud, waste or abuse in the Medicare, Medicaid and Marketplace programs. We are currently seeking a Sr. Data Scientist Advisor to join our team.

Requirements

• BA in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience + at least 15 yrs related experience, or MA + 13 yrs related experience
• Experience with Medicare and/or Medicaid data
• Experience with fraud detection
• Experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Experience conducting health care related research and analytics
• Experience developing and validating AI solutions such as LLMs, chatbots, content generators, deep learning, and similar modern AI technology in cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience conducting statistical/analytical and ML modeling and analysis using Databricks, Snowflake or Python, etc.
• Experience working with large and disparate datasets to efficiently produce AI/ML solutions to meet business needs
• Experience proactively identifying and working collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve data anomalies, data quality, and compliance issues in administrative data
• Superior skills working with large datasets efficiently and effectively incorporating quality assurance techniques throughout the process

Nice To Haves

• Superior written and verbal skills. Must write succinctly and clearly and explain complex situations in plain English to technical and non-technical audiences
• Superior customer service skills working proactively and collaboratively with Federal research, compliance, and policy staff and stakeholders to implement and enhance internal and external management reports and public-facing data analysis tools and data sets
• Superior multi-tasking and organization skills. Must manage multiple simultaneous projects and prioritize assignments and tasks, accordingly, remaining flexible to changing priorities and new initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI models such as Generative AI solution (e.g., Large Language Models (LLMs)), Agentic AI, or AI powered tools working with large datasets and a variety of data, structured and unstructured, to create analytic insights and streamline business processes
• Evaluate analytic solutions and business processes to recommend optimization through emerging technologies and AI/ML techniques
• Remain current on AI technologies, advancements, solutions, and optimization methods to recommend and apply continuous advancement of AI solutions
• Support multiple programs and evaluate overarching solutions, frameworks, and techniques to maximize the value of emerging technology
• Lead project teams to design, develop and deliver complex solutions that achieve strong business value timely and efficiently
• Extract qualitative and quantitative relationships, patterns, and trends from large amounts of data using various tools such as Python, R, SQL, etc.
• Perform data analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning modeling to conduct complex studies, develop sound inferences, and summarize results using a variety of descriptive statistics
• Work with a variety of customers, users, and stakeholders to understand business objectives and design technical solutions to address the business needs
• Collaborate within project teams including other data scientists and non-technical subject matter experts to achieve high quality and impactful solutions within tight timelines

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level