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Senior Data Scientist – Generative AI / Conversational AI Evaluation_Hybrid@Johnston,RI

Contract · In Office · Johnston, Rhode Island (USA)

Posted Sep 16, 2026

  • 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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