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Streetlight Data, Inc. is seeking a Director of Services Data Science and Research.

Responsibilities include:

Ensure on-time delivery of correctly packaged analyses and reports. Support the pre-sales process by helping determine project feasibility, scope, and level of effort to complete. Engage with customers for kick-off calls, deliveries, and necessary communications. Provide hands-on technical support and guidance to data scientists based on experience in the field. Scope projects and design technical methodologies for StreetLight customers working in traffic management, multimodal transportation planning, commercial site selection, freight and logistics, and safety analysis. Provide technical support for proposal writing when responding to Requests for Proposals. Drive feasibility research using internal data based on customer interest. Support the productization of internal research. Develop low-sample imputation methods to provide volumes on all rural roads for a large State Department of Transportation. Develop long-distance truck trips metrics to help freight planners. Create dwell time analysis capabilities to help an international airport understand idling at their terminal pick-up and drop-off. Estimate bicycle and pedestrian segment-level estimates for customers tackling vulnerable road user safety. Develop and calibrate large scale origin-destination matrices for travel demand modelers. Manage a team of 5 Data Scientists to complete custom projects based on customer-specified requirements.

Supervise the work of Principal Data Scientists, Senior Data Scientists, Data Scientists.

Remote work is allowed.

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REQUIREMENTS: This position requires a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning, Computer Science, Statistics, or a closely related field and 7 years of work experience in the job offered or related Transportation Data Scientist/ Transportation Research occupation.

SPECIFIC SKILLS:

Expertise and knowledge of:

Statistical programming language: Python. Databases such as PostgreSQL, Big Query. Geospatial tools like QGIS, ArcGIS, GeoPandas. Geospatial movement data: Location Based Services, Connected Vehicle Data, Connected Truck Data, Aggregate GPS. UX principles and data visualization tools: Tableau, Plotly. Developing and evaluating transportation models, from simple four step models to simulation-based agent-based models. Methods from the Highway Capacity Manual, the Highway Safety Manual, Highway Performance Monitoring System, and National Household Travel Survey. Methods using Big Data for origin-destination matrix estimation (ODME), measuring traffic congestion, and safety analysis. Project management with Jira and Asana. Documentation with Confluence. Code maintenance in Github. Proposal writing in response to Request for Proposal.

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