Background:

DonorSearch is the leading provider of prospect research solutions and AI-powered technologies, serving over 6,800 nonprofit organizations across the US. We are family-owned, headquartered in Maryland, and have a rapidly-growing remote workforce in every U.S. timezone.  With our outstanding reputation and team of innovative professionals, we seek someone to join us to expand our brand and make a lasting impact on the world.

At DonorSearch, we value: Innovation, Excellence, Growth, Collaboration, and Quality.

Job Summary:

DonorSearch Aristotle introduced deep learning and machine learning into the nonprofit sector by building custom models with a robust interactive visualization tool to help organizations fundraise more efficiently.  The Data Scientist will use best-in-class machine learning technologies to develop machine learning algorithms to meet various objectives of fundraising staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Builds production-quality, custom predictive models to enhance and expand our core product
• Investigates new data sources, perform statistical analyses, and document findings
• Works with engineering and data vendors to improve the accuracy of our data sources 
• Performs analysis on a wide variety of large and disparate datasets using complex techniques
• Creates presentations and data visualizations to effectively communicate results to internal staff and external customers
• Applies and combines current and emerging techniques and tools in novel ways
• Develops and combines complex data analysis techniques and methods for a specific application
• Prepares and aggregates large datasets ML builds and scoring
• Maintains machine learning models and evaluate ongoing performance
• Provides support to DonorSearch Aristotle clients with phases of data discovery, aggregation, delivery, onboarding, and adoption

Requirements:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline with a minimum of 3 years of related experience; Master's degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 1 year of related experience; or PhD in similar disciplines.
• Broad knowledge in one or more related fields of the following areas: artificial intelligence, quantitative modeling, machine learning, statistics, math, data science and data visualization.
• Experience in wide application of principles, theories, basic programming and Artificial Intelligence Techniques and concepts
• Hands on experience in building, testing, operationalizing and maintaining machine learning models
• Extensive knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards in software design & development and Computer Science
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline
• Experience including applied techniques in modern data science and machine learning in production environments
• Expert knowledge of Python & SQL
• Collaborative, team-focused attitude with a strong desire to advance the product and learn new things
• The ability to communicate technical ideas to a non-technical audience
• Self-starter with experience turning ideas into actionable designs
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Eligible to work within the United States

Note: This is a remote position that requires up to 25% travel.

The Salary range for this position is $60,000+, with bonus potential.

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