This position serves as Without Compensation Computer Scientist within the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The VA Research Program strives to promote Veteran-centered care to improve patient experiences and outcomes across VA healthcare and community settings, and to advance value-driven care by providing Veterans the highest quality care at the lowest financial burden. Please note, there is no pay associated with this position.

Duties

Incumbent develops programming specifications, designs, writes, tests and validates a variety of custom software applications to support a wide range of data collection and analysis needs for research studies. Applies relational databases and software development to research experience within the framework of health services research. Applies artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) machine learning and deep learning methodologies and applications to support health services research and quality improvement projects. Mentors and supervises work of junior computer scientists. Work Schedule: Full-Time (Without Compensation) Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Position Description: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: Experience: You must possess general experience in: Applying relational databases and software development to research experience within the framework of health services research. Applying artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) machine learning and deep learning methodologies and applications to support health services research and quality improvement projects. Education: You must possess a a doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science (Copies of transcripts are required at the time of application). 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; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.Physical Requirements: The work is predominantly sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there will be some walking, standing, bending and carrying of items of moderate weight such as large binders, banker style file boxes, meeting materials, papers, books or small parts. Hand and eye coordination for delicate testing procedures may be the only special physical demand required to perform the work.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Pittsburgh ORD VISN 4 1000 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]