If you like challenges, working with numbers, and using technology, SOI has a career for you. We’re particularly interested in economists, IT professionals, and statisticians. We offer extensive training, great benefits, and a friendly work environment. And, you'll be placed in a career ladder program that assures rapid advancement up to a GS-12 level. We offer very competitive salaries. We work hard during the hiring process to ensure a good fit between you and SOI, which helps us keep our turnover rate very low. We want the best, but we want you to like what you do, too. Economists As an economist with SOI, you’ll plan and conduct studies using tax and information returns as primary data sources. You’ll also meet and work with our customers, other SOI staff, and IRS field personnel. It’s a challenging job and you’ll need to continually review economic, statistical, and tax literature to maintain your expertise, respond to public inquiries, present papers, and train personnel. You’ll work with either the Individual, Corporation, or Special Studies Branches of SOI. IT professionals We need specialists in both applications and technical support. Application specialists Here, you’ll work in the operations sections in one of the three subject-matter Branches of SOI where you’ll perform systems analysis and design, write and code programs, and test, monitor, and maintain the applications. You’ll design and work with relational databases and interactive data entry programs to create statistical microdata files for delivery to SOI customers. Tech support specialists As part of the team, you’ll be responsible for our computer hardware, its operating systems and commercial software, and data communications systems. You’ll also manage the LAN and various components of the WAN and provide expertise on systems and database administration, data communications, and software languages. Mathematical statisticians We have two teams of mathematical statisticians supporting SOI programs and providing consulting to other areas of the IRS. Mathematical statistics section In the Mathematical Statistics Section, you’ll manage our sampling operations, provide statistical guidance and expertise, ensure the integrity of our data, and prepare technical papers for professional meetings. Statistical Support section In the Statistical Support Section, you will be one of our resident consultants to other IRS organizations. You’ll design samples, develop weighting specifications, quality measures, and customer satisfaction surveys, determine appropriate estimation and variance parameters for study variables and assist with cognitive research. Candidate qualifications At SOI, we’re proud of what we do and work hard to produce the best, most reliable statistical information on the state of our tax operations. We expect you to be the best as well. To join us, you’ll need: United States citizenship A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university GPA of 3.0 or higher on all undergraduate course work or for all courses taken during the last two years of the curriculum, or Standing in the upper third of the college or university graduating class, or Membership in a recognized national scholastic honor society. Specific course requirements Economists need 21 semester hours in economics and 3 hours in accounting, statistics or calculus IT Specialists must have majored in computer science, information science, information systems management, mathematics, statistics, operations research or engineering or had course work that required the development or adaptation of computer programs and systems and provided knowledge equivalent to a computer major. Mathematical Statisticians need 21 semester hours in mathematics and statistics, at least 12 hours of which must be in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics. Available Job Openings USA Jobs is the Federal Government’s official Website for listing civil service job opportunities with Federal agencies. All available job opportunities within the IRS and the Statistics of Income Division are posted to this site at USAJobs. For additional information, please e-mail us your questions at: sis@irs.gov More resources: Careers With SOI Work Environment SOI Training Employee Benefits More Career Info SOI Home
