Supervisory Data Scientist
Office of Inspector General
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Data Scientist
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Department of Agriculture
Location
Salary
$106,437 - $138,370
per year
Type
Full Time
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January 21, 2026
GS-13 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves working with data to help the Food Safety and Inspection Service make better decisions about food safety, such as by cleaning data, building models, and creating visual reports to spot trends and risks.
You'll use programming to analyze information from databases and share insights with leaders and teams.
It's a great fit for someone with strong tech skills in data tools who enjoys solving real-world problems in government and public health.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 level
- Proficiency in Python or R for extracting, manipulating, and integrating data from relational databases
- Experience creating interactive reports or dashboards using Python, R, Qlik, or similar tools
- Ability to lead technical initiatives, including planning, coding, testing, and deploying data solutions
- Skills in developing oral and written presentations to communicate complex analyses to diverse audiences
- Background in data cleaning, visualization, trend analysis, and statistical or machine learning model development
Full Job Description
This position is located within the Office of Planning, Analysis, and Risk Management (OPARM). OPARM is the FSIS centralized analytics group and tasked with integrating and analyzing relational data.
The program also provides data visualization and analytics services to support FSIS decision-making, policy development, risk management, and strategic planning.
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and education, as defined below.
For the GS-13 grade level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-12 grade level) that demonstrates: Using Python or R to extract, manipulate, and integrate information from relational databases.
Creating interactive reports or dashboards using programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Python, R, Qlik, or similar) Leading technical initiatives, including planning, coding, testing, and deploying solutions that support organizational data and reporting needs.
Developing oral and written presentations communicating complex and technical analyses to inform, influence, and persuade a variety of audiences.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Major Duties:
- Perform data cleaning and visualization.
- Perform trend analysis and algorithm development.
- Develop new prescriptive analytics used in decision making.
- Present alternate solutions to analytics and future concepts.
- Develop statistical models and machine learning models.
- Analyze outputs from analyses.
- Perform quality checks on model and analysis output.
- Develop recommendations for data integration.
- Develop testing hypothesis.
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