Data Scientist, CG-1560-11/12/13 at Other Agencies and Independent Organizations - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Washington, District of Columbia Washington, District of Columbia | Job Transparency - Job Transparency | Find Your Dream Job with Full Salary Transparency

This position is located in the Division of Insurance and Research, Center for Financial Research, and conducts and publishes research on the banking industry, bank regulation, financial markets, and deposit insurance.

Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.

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Conditions of Employment

Registration with the Selective Service.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

Employment Conditions.

Completion of Financial Disclosure may be required.

Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) required.

Qualifications

Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious spiritual; community; student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.

Basic Requirement for CG-11:

1. Degree: Mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position. The degree must be in a major field of study (at least at the baccalaureate level) that is appropriate for the position.

2. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

AND

Specialized Experience: To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 9 grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience writing code in either Python or R to conduct economic, statistical, or machine-learning analyses.

By Substituting Education: Applicants must possess a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 years of progressively higher level full-time graduate education leading to such a degree. Major field of study: mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science or field directly related to the position.

By Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of graduate level education beyond the second full year of graduate level education, and specialized experience as described above, that together meet the qualification requirements for this position.

Basic Requirement for CG-12:

2. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

AND

Specialized Experience: To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 11 grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience conducting economic, statistical, or machine-learning analyses by writing code in Python or R; and conducting economic, statistical, or machine-learning analyses using either unstructured data or Linux-based high-performance computing clusters or cloud platforms (such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, etc.).

Basic Requirement for CG-13:

2. Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major field of study (30 semester hours) as shown in paragraph A above, plus additional education or appropriate experience.

AND

Specialized Experience: To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 12 grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience is writing code in either Python or R to conduct machine learning analyses including using at least one of the following: neural networks, random forest, boosting, K nearest neighbors, support vector machines, K-means clustering, and Natural Language Processing.

YOU MUST PROVIDE ALL TRANSCRIPT(S) (unofficial copy is acceptable).

Education

See requirements stated under QUALIFICATIONS.

Additional information

Selectee(s) for this position will be required to report to their duty station office at least 1 day per pay period beginning January 2, 2024, and at their supervisor’s direction to support mission and project needs. In person reporting requirements are expected to increase in July 2024.

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If selected, you may be required to serve a probationary period.

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