Verification & Validation Data Scientist
SHRM • Alexandria, VA • Posted July 15, 2026
Position Overview
SHRM is a member-driven catalyst for creating better workplaces where people and businesses thrive together. As the trusted authority on all things work, SHRM is the foremost expert, researcher, advocate, and thought leader on issues and innovations impacting today’s evolving workplaces. With nearly 340,000 members in 180 countries, SHRM touches the lives of more than 362 million workers and their families globally.
**Summary**
This role exists to answer one question independently: do the synthetic-audience and automated systems actually perform as claimed? It is a verification-and-validation function drawn from data science, closer to model validation, ML evaluation, and the independent V&V discipline used in regulated and safety-critical software than to market research. The V&V Data Scientist will design and run the evaluation that benchmarks system output against ground-truth data, owns the accuracy metrics and error bounds, and certifies fitness for use, working...
**Summary**
This role exists to answer one question independently: do the synthetic-audience and automated systems actually perform as claimed? It is a verification-and-validation function drawn from data science, closer to model validation, ML evaluation, and the independent V&V discipline used in regulated and safety-critical software than to market research. The V&V Data Scientist will design and run the evaluation that benchmarks system output against ground-truth data, owns the accuracy metrics and error bounds, and certifies fitness for use, working...