Assistant Consultant, Data Science

WSP USA Inc.

Job Title: Assistant Consultant, Data Science

Location: 1001 4th Ave, Suite 3100, Seattle, WA 98154

Duties: Under general supervision, assist with sourcing, collecting, compiling, and analyzing structured and unstructured data from a variety of travel and transportation sources, financial reports, computer-generated reports, and other matrices and disparate sources. Assist with performing basic professional data scientist work with identifying the data-analytics problems, data anomalies that offer the greatest opportunities to the assigned task. Under general supervision, assist with preparing transportation applications using data, visualizations, and reports summarizing research and specifications with findings and conclusions; generating complete, accurate, and concise documentation using dashboards, tables, charts, calculations, and illustrations. Apply Statistical and Machine Learning methods to specific transportation and safety analytics problems and data. Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cleaning, validating, and cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc. Under general supervision, assist with assigned aspects of the design, development, evaluation, and release of highly innovative models that elevate the customer experience and track impact over time. Triage client requests to ensure project success to include completion in time and for the results to be useful. Assist with professional deliverables on projects and proposals. Salary $96,117.00. Standard corporate benefits.

Requirements: Bachelors degree (or foreign equivalent) in Data Science or related plus 3 months of experience as a Data Scientist or related. Experience must include: Perform transit and crash analysis using PostreSQL with PostGIS data including OpenSidewalk, ORCA transit data, and WSDOT data, with accompanying interactive dashboards, tables, and graphics. Utilize R programming with advanced automation to Extract, Transform, and Load data directly from API sources to deliverables for transportation datasets including real-time GTFS, Replica, safety including high injury networks, and traffic data. Engineer/design web-based review tools using JavaScript, Leaflet, HTML, and CSS, R-Shiny, enabling public and stakeholder validation of data for equitable transportation planning. Email resume to jobs@wsp.com, Ref: 7070.