Senior Data Scientist at City of New York
New York City, NY
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Aug 3, 2026
New York City, NY
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A New York City government agency is hiring a data scientist to support enforcement of consumer and worker protection laws. The role involves working alongside investigators and attorneys to collect, analyze, and interpret business data — identifying violations, calculating damages, and assessing compliance. It also includes building systems to automate and standardize data workflows, with no specific technology stack named in the posting.
Mid level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Master's required · Full-time
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,700 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 5,000–8,700
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $103,548–$176,968).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 7, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
This posting names no specific technologies, programming languages, or tools anywhere — the skills list is therefore very sparse. The only concrete requirements are a relevant graduate degree and research experience in a social or physical science field.
The minimum experience threshold is derived from the civil service qualification: a master's degree plus three years of full-time research experience (or a doctorate plus one year). The posting does not name any specific data science tools, languages, or platforms.
The title is 'Senior Data Scientist' but the civil service classification is 'City Research Scientist' (Assignment Level II), a government job title that maps more closely to a mid-level research/analyst role by scope and experience floor. Seniority is assessed as Mid accordingly.
The alt SOC 15-2031 (Operations Research Analysts) is noted because the role's primary work — economic analysis, compliance assessment, and damage calculation in a regulatory/legal context — has a strong analytical/operations-research character alongside the data science framing.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data analysis, process automation.
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