Principal Data Scientist

Job Listing ID:

4490297

Job Title:

Principal Data Scientist Application Deadline:

Open Until Filled

Job Location:

Salem

Date Posted:

05/12/2026

Hours Worked Per Week:

Not Provided Shift:

Not Provided Duration of Job:

Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months You may contact this employer directly. (Obtain the contact information to print or add to your jobs.)

Job Summary:

Maximus has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Data Scientist to join the USS program, supporting both the enterprise and our government clients. We are seeking an accomplished, hands-on individual contributor and collaborative team player to help drive innovative, secure, and mission focused AI solutions in support of USS objectives. You will be responsible for architecting and optimizing scalable, secure AI systems and integrating AI models in production using MLOps best practices, ensuring systems are resilient, compliant, and efficient. This role requires strong systems thinking, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to manage risk and change in complex environments. Success depends on cross-functional collaboration, strategic communication, and adaptability in fast-paced, evolving technology landscapes. This position will be focused on strategic company-wide initiatives but will also play a role in project delivery and capture solutioning (i.e., leaning in on existing or future projects and providing solutioning to capture new work.) This is a remote position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Make deep dives into the data, pulling out objective insights for business leaders. Initiate, craft, and lead advanced analyses of operational data. Provide a strong voice for the importance of data-driven decision making. Provide expertise to others in data wrangling and analysis. Convert complex data into visually appealing presentations. Develop and deploy advanced methods to analyze operational data and derive meaningful, actionable insights for stakeholders and business development partners. Understand the importance of automation and look to implement and initiate automated solutions where appropriate. Initiate and take the lead on AI/ML initiatives as well as develop AI/ML code for projects. Utilize various languages for scripting and write SQL queries. Serve as the primary point of contact for data and analytical usage across multiple projects. Guide operational partners on product performance and solution improvement/maturity options. Participate in intra-company data-related initiatives as well as help foster and develop relationships throughout the organization. Learn new skills in advanced analytics/AI/ML tools, techniques, and languages. Mentor more junior data analysts/data scientists as needed. Apply strategic approach to lead projects from start to finish;

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop, collaborate, and advance the applied and responsible use of AI, ML, simulation, and data science solutions throughout the enterprise and for our clients by finding the right fit of tools, technologies, processes, and automation to enable effective and efficient solutions for each unique situation. Contribute and lead the creation, curation, and promotion of playbooks, best practices, lessons learned and firm intellectual capital. Contribute to efforts across the enterprise to support the creation of solutions and real mission outcomes leveraging AI capabilities from Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, LLMs and classical machine learning. Maintain current knowledge and evaluation of the AI technology landscape and emerging developments and their applicability for use in production/operational environments. Minimum Requirements '- Bachelor's degree in related field required. 10-12 years of relevant professional experience required. Job-Specific Minimum Requirements (required skills that align with contract LCAT, verifiable, and measurable): 10+ years of relevant Software Development + AI / ML / DS experience.