Sr. Data Scientist: $90/hr

Job Description

Job Description

One of Infonet's premier clients has an opening for a Sr. Data Scientist.

RATE: $90/hr 1099/Corp-to-Corp or $83/hr-W2

JOB LENGTH: 12 Months

TERMS: Contract

SCOPE OF WORK

• Monitor accuracy, drift, bias, adoption, latency, cost, and business KPIs; trigger retraining, recalibration, or process changes when performance or value realization degrades
• Partner with business, product, operations, AI Engineering, and data engineering teams to convert model outputs into decisions, workflows, incentives, and measurable adoption
• Explain model logic, uncertainty, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended decisions in business terms
• Convert model outputs into decisions, workflows, incentives, and measurable adoption

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrated experience appropriate to senior scope delivering ML, optimization, experimentation, or GenAI solutions that moved beyond analysis into production use or business decisioning
• Hands-on experience with Python, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, PyTorch or TensorFlow where appropriate, and model evaluation workflows for production-grade use cases
• Experience with MILP solvers, simulation, scenario planning, dynamic programming, heuristics, or prescriptive analytics methods applied to real business decisions
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, GPT-class models, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, evaluation, and safe use of GenAI for decision support or workflow automation
• Advanced use of Databricks, Spark, SQL, feature pipelines, data quality checks, and reproducible analytical workflows for large-scale data science delivery
• Experience with MLflow, Azure ML, model registries, CI/CD, monitoring, retraining, and production handoff practices that keep models reliable after launch
• Strong Python engineering practices, Git workflows, testing, packaging, notebooks-to-production discipline, APIs, and collaboration with AI Engineering for deployment readiness

PREFERRED EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Engineering, Economics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT

• Some - occasionally required to walk to the dock and ascend/descend the vessel
• This position may require regular domestic or international travel



 

** No 3rd party vendors ** Unable to sponsor H1-B visas **

\nCompany Description

Infonet is an Information Technology staffing firm based in South Florida. The company was founded over 20 years ago by IT Hiring Managers and Software/Hardware Engineers.
What distinguishes Infonet is our passion to serve you. We take your job search seriously, not ourselves.

Company Description

Infonet is an Information Technology staffing firm based in South Florida. The company was founded over 20 years ago by IT Hiring Managers and Software/Hardware Engineers.\r\nWhat distinguishes Infonet is our passion to serve you. We take your job search seriously, not ourselves.