Data Scientist III - Gulfport, United States - The University of Southern Mississippi

Description

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Thisis advanced level, data scientist work with the responsibility for developing,planning, and implementing research projects to advance ocean science andengineering. Incumbents are expected toconduct, evaluate, and interpret scientific data and studies with considerableindependent judgment and discretion under the general supervision of ahigher-level, scientist or an administrative or technical supervisor.Interaction with members of local, state, and federal regulatory entities,special interest groups, and the general public, including speaking to largeand small groups is required. Incumbents at this level may act as projectmanagers in the performance of related duties and supervision will be exercisedover others. This position is located at the Marine Research Center, inGulfport MS and is part of the USM Roger F. Wicker Center for OceanEnterprise. The Center works withindustry, state and federal government and academic partners for research,development, testing and evaluation of ocean sensing buoys as well as uncrewedsurface and subsurface marine vehicles including but not limited to platform,payload, command and control systems, power system and dataintegration/analysis.

Primary Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop, plan, and manage research projects and research/technician personnel. Provide leadership in coordinating research activities and serve as project coordinator and supervisor of less senior staff.

Routinely prepares technical reports, manuscripts, oral presentations, and other written forms of communication for the dissemination of research findings following standard guidelines.

Contribute to Ocean Enterprise goals by developing proposals, keeping appropriate individuals on the OE staff informed of activities of activities and providing status reports for documenting milestones and meeting funding obligations regarding projects.

Plan, manage and execute test and evaluation of UxS, other autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles or platforms and performs analysis of data collected.

Provides programmatic and technical support to project directors or principal investigators and collaborate with Ocean Enterprise, USM and external researchers.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
Master'sdegree from an accredited college or university in data science, engineering,remote sensing, physical science or closely related field and a minimum fiveyears of experience in data science research, applications, or similaroccupation. Related education and related experience may be substituted on anequal basis. Valid Driver's License is required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA):

Ability toread, analyze, and interpret research periodicals, professional journals,technical procedures associated with research activities. Proficient writingskills are necessary to perform stated duties.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions fromgroups of data science professionals, customers, and the general public.

Ability toutilize, process, visualize, and analyze various geospatial data as well as cantravel, and work from large and small vessels.

PreferredQualifications:
from an accredited college or university in, data science, engineering,remote sensing, physical science or closely related field and two years ofexperience in data science research, applications, or similar occupation. ValidDriver's License is required.

Proficiencywith Programming Languages/Platforms/Libraries such as C, Java, Python,R/RSudio, MATLAB, AWS Sagemaker, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Tensorflow,Keras, Scikit Learn, Pandas, Numpy, SQL, NOSQL (Mongo DB), ArcPy, Tableau,Docker, and ArcGIS.

Certificationsin one or more of the above toolsets.