The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) ITT Division is looking to optimize guest experience, reduce operational costs, and increase revenue through big data analytics, data science, and data engineering expertise. The Data Science Lead will be responsible for leveraging AI/ML and video analytics to achieve these goals.
Requirements
- Experience with machine learning concepts: regression and classification, clustering, feature selection, curse of dimensionality, bias-variance tradeoff, neural networks, SVMs, etc.
- Knowledge in time-series analysis.
- Familiarity with scripting language and/or shell scripting.
- Software development life-cycle experience, with proven track record of shipping products.
- Experience with big data and distributed system technologies like Hadoop, Mongo, Couch, Spark.
- Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Knowledge AWS Sagemaker, Azure ML, GCP Vertex AI, or Snowflake Cortex.
Responsibilities
- Define the roadmap for integrating video analytics, structured and unstructured data, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) capabilities into business strategies.
- Identify opportunities to leverage video data for insights, automation, and innovation.
- Lead the development of solutions for extracting insights from video, structured and unstructured data.
- Research, prototype, and deploy advanced AI/ML models for structured (3rd Party applications, APIs, streaming data) and unstructured data(video/audio/other).
- Oversee model lifecycle management, from design to deployment and monitoring; ensure scalability, performance, and accuracy of AI/ML solutions
- Work closely with Data Engineers, Architects and CI/CD Engineers to design data pipelines that handle structured and/or unstructured data efficiently.
- Implement real-time and batch processing capabilities for data streams.
Other
- Five (5) years of experience with probability and statistics, including experimental design, predictive modeling, optimization, and causal inference.
- A highly collaborative mindset, eager to work cross-functionally with diverse teams and contribute to a shared mission.
- Candidates for employment with the San Francisco Airport Commission are required to undergo a criminal history record check, including FBI fingerprints, and Security Threat Assessment in order to determine eligibility for security clearance and may be required to undergo drug/alcohol screening.
- The selection process will include evaluation of applications in relation to minimum requirements.
- Applicants must be guided solely by the provisions of this announcement, including requirements, time periods and other particulars, except when superseded by federal, state or local laws, rules or regulations.
