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Job Summary

This is an early to mid-career role that will require the incumbent to design, build and maintain machine learning (ML) models focusing on making AI models practical and scalable for real-world applications, often bridging the gap between data science and software engineering. The position is located at the USM Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

+ Design, develop, and optimize machine learning models for diverse business and research applications.

+ Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to integrate ML models into production systems and ensure scalability.

+ Lead data preparation efforts, including preprocessing, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis to support model development.

+ Evaluate and refine models using appropriate metrics, improving accuracy, efficiency, and robustness against real-world data challenges.

+ Maintain and enhance ML pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, reproducibility, and continuous improvement.

+ Stay current with AI/ML research and apply emerging methods to solve complex practical problems.

+ Translate research into practice by collaborating with principal investigators and research teams, and assisting in preparing technical reports, visualizations, and academic publications.

+ Document models, processes, and codebases to ensure transparency, reproducibility, and effective knowledge sharing across teams.

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