Data Analyst 2

The State of New York, Department of Financial Services, Office of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Safety & Education, is hiring a Data Analyst 2 to produce business intelligence from RAISE Act submissions and turn that data into analyses, models, reporting, and tools. The role supports both internal and external reporting, with responsibilities that include testing, validation, and clear communication of results.

Role overview

• Creates business intelligence solutions by querying data from RAISE Act submissions, including frontier AI frameworks, assessments of catastrophic risk, critical safety incident reports, and other available data.
• Develops approaches to identify patterns and trends in RAISE Act data to inform internal and external reporting and analysis.
• Researches new data sources and analytical tools, then recommends solutions.
• Conducts or coordinates testing to ensure solutions align with defined business needs.
• Performs testing, validation, and model reformulation to support accurate prediction of outcomes of interest.
• Builds new functions or applications in programming languages to support analysis workflows.
• Drafts written reports and communicates or presents results effectively.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• Familiarity with frontier AI concepts, including training compute thresholds, capability evaluations, and model release types, to extract and analyze required data points from information provided under the RAISE Act.
• Foundational skills in SQL (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, and basic aggregation to retrieve and combine data from filing databases and trackers) and Excel (formulas, pivot tables, and conditional formatting), with some experience in Python or R to run and lightly modify existing scripts, run standard queries, and update reports and dashboards.
• Comfort working with structured and semi-structured filings (PDF, CSV, JSON) and basic text extraction tools.

Tools and technologies

• SQL, Excel, Python, R, PDF, CSV, JSON

Experience and substitution

• Non-competitive: Seven years of experience in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Substitution: An associate degree may substitute for two years of specialized experience; a bachelor’s degree may substitute for four years; a master’s degree may substitute for five years; and a J.D. may substitute for six years.

Compensation and appointment

• Salary: USD 90,582 to 114,585 per year.
• Location: Albany, NY (onsite).
• Downstate adjustment: Positions located within the New York City metropolitan area, as well as Suffolk, Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester Counties, may receive an additional $4,150 annual downstate adjustment.
• Appointment status: Temporary.
• Credentials/background check: Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify identity.

Please note that a change in negotiating unit may affect your salary, insurance, and other benefits.