Full Stack Data Scientist III/IV

Location: Rabat, Morocco (preferred) or Dakar, Senegal (preferred); open to other IDinsight office locations (Nairobi, Kenya; New Delhi, India; Manila, Philippines; Lusaka, Zambia) IDinsight is hiring full-time senior data scientists (4 to 8 years of relevant experience) to grow our machine learning, AI, and broader data science capabilities. In this role, the data scientist will leverage their expertise to drive social impact across multiple project teams and clients. You may lead work on models that help locate out-of-school children, LLM-powered co-pilots for teachers, agentic systems that help citizens access benefits, geospatial tools for planning public infrastructure, or optimization models for allocating resources in public health. We are a social-impact-oriented organization, so we can guarantee incredibly meaningful work tackling some of the world’s most complex international development challenges. Build cool stuff. Have a positive impact. We are working to build IDinsight into a global leader in the use of data science, ML, and GenAI to solve some of the world’s most urgent problems. As an expert in the field, you will provide guidance on methods, tools, design, and deployment of the solutions we build. You’ll be joining a growing data science team and working on highly impactful and innovative projects with our partners. We are an entrepreneurial team where you have a strong voice in how the team functions and grows. You’ll get to work on the full spectrum of a solution- from design to deployment. This includes not just data processing and algorithm design, but also full-stack engineering work. You may also evaluate tools that other organizations in the sector are building, and provide critical input for improving or scaling them. Data science products need to be contextually relevant and build on subject-matter expertise to be effective. You will work closely with our partners and a multidisciplinary team- including economists, social sector experts, a