Marine Sensor Data Scientist AI/ML

Duties of the Marine Sensor Data Scientist will include the following, * Coordinate with project partners to optimize data collection and sensor configurations for artificial intelligence and machine-learning applications.

• Maintain familiarity with active and passive acoustic, multibeam, underwater video, stereo-video, environmental DNA, and aerial-image datasets.
• Assist with field-data collection as needed.
• Organize and document data and metadata using established protocols and tracking interfaces.
• Curate data in repositories, including cloud storage.
• Conduct data quality assurance and quality control and evaluate whether datasets meet criteria for advanced analyses.
• Prepare and archive datasets in accordance with government data-archiving requirements.
• Maintain an understanding of data products required to meet agency and SEFSC goals and of analytical routines used in SEFSC operations.
• Identify existing and potential datasets suitable for artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools.
• Annotate data and support model testing and training.
• Support or lead the development of machine-learning detectors and classifiers for sensor data.
• Develop, train, test, and validate analytical models.
• Generate science products that can be used by customers such as stock-assessment scientists.
• Participate in multidisciplinary working groups and collaborative projects within and outside NOAA.
• Prepare scientific proposals for extramural funding.
• Review reports, manuscripts, and scientific proposals.
• Participate in stakeholder engagement, public outreach, workshops, scientific meetings, symposiums, and public forums.
• Provide required monthly status reports and timely summaries of outreach and scientific-meeting activities., The position may be located at an SEFSC laboratory in Miami, Florida; Beaufort, North Carolina; Panama City, Florida; Pascagoula, Mississippi; or Galveston, Texas. The role includes computer-based data management, cloud computing, model development, collaborative scientific work, and potential field-data collection. Travel may be required for field activities, project meetings, workshops, scientific conferences, and public outreach. Facility access is generally available from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Travel and overtime must be authorized in accordance with contract requirements.

• A master’s degree in data science, computer science, marine biology, or a related field, or an undergraduate degree with one year of relevant research experience.
• Proficiency in machine learning or other artificial-intelligence methods.
• Proficiency in software languages such as Python and R.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with cloud computing and model architecture.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Experience managing large datasets.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate on large, multifaceted projects., * A Ph.D. in data science, computer science, marine biology, or a related field, with experience developing machine-learning models and advanced analytical techniques.
• Experience developing and deploying artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models using cloud resources.

$95,000.00

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