BURGEON IT SERVICES
Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI / Conversational AI Evaluation_Hybrid@Johnston,RI
Contract · In Office · Johnston, Rhode Island (USA)
Posted Sep 16, 2026
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- Role: Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI / Conversational AI Evaluation
- Location: Johnston, RI or Westwood, MA
- Hybrid/Onsite preferred, though location flexibility may be considered
- Domain: Cards, Banking, FSI
Description:
- We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to support the development and evaluation of AI-powered fraud self-service voice agents and conversational AI systems. The primary responsibility is not model deployment or engineering implementation, but designing evaluation frameworks, measuring system performance, identifying failure patterns, conducting root-cause analysis, and optimizing model behavior through data-driven experimentation.
- Key Responsibilities
- • Design and execute evaluation frameworks for LLM, RAG, and multi-turn conversational AI systems.
- • Develop metrics to assess customer intent recognition, conversation quality, guardrail effectiveness, and business outcomes.
- • Analyze voice-agent interactions and identify areas of failure, drift, and performance degradation.
- • Perform prompt tuning and experimentation to improve model accuracy and reliability.
- • Conduct root-cause analysis of conversational failures and recommend remediation strategies.
- • Measure performance across different model configurations, prompts, and guardrail implementations.
- • Partner with AI Engineering and Product teams to validate solutions before production deployment.
- • Build dashboards and reports that communicate model effectiveness and operational impact.
- • Support fraud-related customer service use cases, including intent detection and multi-turn conversation flows.
- Success Criteria
- • Develop reliable evaluation methodologies for conversational AI systems.
- • Quantify the effectiveness of fraud self-service voice agents.
- • Optimize prompts, retrieval strategies, and guardrails using empirical evidence.
- • Deliver actionable insights that improve customer experience and model performance.
- • Establish measurable KPIs for intent detection and multi-turn conversation success.
Mandatory Skills:
- • Strong background in Data Science, Machine Learning, Generative AI, or a related quantitative field.
- • Hands-on experience evaluating LLM, RAG, Agentic AI, or Conversational AI solutions.
- • Deep understanding of model evaluation techniques and metrics, including:
- o Precision@K
- o Recall@K
- o Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR)
- o F1 Score
- o Retrieval and generation quality assessment
- • Experience performing experimentation, statistical analysis, and performance benchmarking.
- • Strong Python programming skills.
- • Experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks such as Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Pandas, NumPy, and related tools.
- • Ability to communicate technical findings succinctly to highly technical stakeholders.
Desired Skills:
- • Experience with:
- o Generative AI and LLM ecosystems
- o Multi-agent systems
- o RAG/Agentic RAG architectures
- o Amazon Bedrock
- o AWS SageMaker
- o Databricks
- o MLflow
- o LangSmith
- o Weights & Biases
- • Knowledge of conversational AI, IVR systems, digital assistants, and voice agents.
- • Experience in financial services, fraud detection, or customer service automation
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Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI / Conversational AI Evaluation_Hybrid@Johnston,RI
BURGEON IT SERVICES
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