Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Girl Effect is an organization that builds media and tech for adolescent girls in Africa and Asia. They are seeking a Data Scientist to leverage modern AI frameworks and models to enhance their chatbot solutions, ensuring user safety and providing impactful experiences for vulnerable youth.

Responsibilities

• You’re a GenAI and LLM expert: You have hands-on, proven experience building with modern AI frameworks and models, using the elements described above in our technical stack. You possess a postgraduate degree in Data Science (or a similar field), are familiar with the full software development lifecycle, and can help to guide big architectural choices
• You care deeply about user safety: Working with vulnerable youth means safety isn't an afterthought for you. You are passionate about building responsible AI, setting up rigorous evaluation metrics, and ensuring every chatbot interaction is accurate, secure, and helpful
• You are an excellent collaborator and translator: You can seamlessly sit at the center of technical and non-technical worlds. You are comfortable talking code and setting standards with data scientists, whilst open to discussing impact and behavior change goals with subject matter experts in mental health, safeguarding, and evaluation to understand the use case
• You can juggle and own: You have strong organizational skills and are able to prioritize a technical roadmap in an agile environment. You are ready to conduct code reviews, design experiments to prove the tech works, and represent the organization's data science vision at public events or partner meetings
• You are mission-driven: Above all, you have a genuine passion for using technology to make a tangible, positive impact on the lives of young girls around the world

Skills

• Postgraduate degree in Data Science or a relevant discipline
• Strong technical acumen, able to guide decisions on digital platforms and tools
• Understanding and experience of the software lifecycle
• Exceptional organizational and multitasking skills
• Proven expertise in the application of LLM and GenAI technologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with staff at all levels of the organization
• A genuine passion for our mission and the positive impact we're making on the lives of girls

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