Senior Data Scientist

KIBO is a registered United States company dedicated to providing governments worldwide its services of inspection, analysis, certification, and compliance.  The Senior Data Scientist owns the analytics engine behind KIBO's service — the price-verification benchmarking and the risk-scoring that turn import-declaration data and international trade data into defensible, inspection-ready outputs and the reporting delivered to the customs administration. It is the pivotal quantitative role, and includes building the customs-revenue baseline analysis that underpins the program. Key Responsibilities - Data integration. Build and maintain pipelines that ingest customs declaration data (ASYCUDA/SYDONIA) and commercial international trade-price data, reconciling schemas, units and currencies into a single analytical warehouse. - Price-verification analytics. Construct the benchmarking that compares declared values against international reference prices — surfacing likely under-invoicing while respecting the WTO Customs Valuation framework — and document the method so findings are defensible. - Risk scoring. Design, train and monitor the models and rules that score declarations for anomalies in value, tariff classification and origin, and that prioritize shipments for inspection. - Revenue-baseline analysis. Produce the customs-revenue baseline analysis used to establish reference metrics with the authorities. - Generate the recurring risk-assessment reports and the monthly reporting delivered to the customs administration, with clear, auditable lineage from source data to conclusion. - Feedback loop. Incorporate field-inspection results back into the models to improve hit-rates over time. Required Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in data science, quantitative analytics, applied statistics, or machine learning, including production experience building models and data pipelines using real operational data. - Strong Python and SQL skills, with hands-on experience using tools such as pandas, scikit-learn, or equivalent analytical/modeling libraries. - Experience with anomaly detection, statistical benchmarking, supervised or unsupervised modeling, model monitoring, and performance evaluation. - Demonstrated ability to work with large transactional, logistics, financial, trade, or similarly complex operational datasets, including reconciling heterogeneous sources, schemas, units, and currencies. - Ability to clearly document analytical methods, explain findings, and defend quantitative outputs to non-technical stakeholders, auditors, or government counterparts. - Strong data-governance practices, including reproducibility, data lineage, version control, quality checks, and appropriate handling of sensitive data. Preferred Qualifications - Exposure to customs, international trade, tariff/HS classification, import/export data, valuation, or commercial trade-price data. - Familiarity with ASYCUDA/SYDONIA data structures or other customs, logistics, or government data systems. - Experience standing up analytics capabilities in data-constrained, emerging-market, public-sector, or operationally complex environments. - Experience with cloud data warehouses and workflow orchestration tools such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Airflow, dbt, Prefect, or similar platforms. - #LI-NA1 What Success Looks Like in Your First Few Months During your first months, you will: - Stand up the analytical environment and ingest initial customs and trade-data samples. - Deliver an initial customs-revenue baseline analysis and prototype the price-verification benchmarking and risk-scoring. - Produce the first risk-assessment reports that support inspection getting under way. Reporting and Working Relationships Reports to the Engagement / Delivery Lead; takes valuation-methodology guidance from the Customs & Valuation Subject-Matter Expert; partners with the Senior Full-Stack Developer on data access and tooling; consumes inspection results from the field via the Technical Manager and Data & IT Liaison. What KIBO Offers - Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. - High-impact, mission-driven work supporting the modernization of a national customs administration. - The opportunity to help design a platform with long-term economic, operational, and public-sector impact. - A collaborative, multidisciplinary team of customs, technology, data, and engineering specialists. - Significant ownership and influence during a critical program build-out phase. - Opportunities for professional growth as the platform and program expand. If you are motivated by mission-driven work and want to help establish the architecture behind a transformative customs-modernization program, we encourage you to apply. KIBO Laboratories LLC is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes qualified applicants of all backgrounds. Offers are contingent on background, right-to-work and — where applicable — sanctions-screening checks.