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Staff Data Scientist 1

Ara
Bentonville, AR Full Time
POSTED ON 3/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

AR02 - Bentonville

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

609 SW 8th St

Suite 220

Bentonville, AR 72712, USA

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is seeking an early-career data scientist to join our team in Bentonville, Arkansas. The ideal candidate should be passionate about pursuing practical solutions to complex problems, driven by supporting mathematical model development to aid in real-world government and military operations. This position requires the ability to work independently with minimal supervision, structure and organize data efficiently, and provide team members with reliable analyses.

The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team of professionals developing mathematical models to solve critical problems of national importance.

What you’ll do as a Data Scientist 1 :

  • Automate mining and collection processes from identified data sources
  • Investigate and identify new data sources
  • Pre-process structured and unstructured data prior to analysis
  • Analyze data to support model development needs with your team including :

Statistical data driven modeling

  • Theory driven modeling
  • Hybrid theory / data driven modeling
  • Employ machine-learning algorithms and utilize ensemble modeling techniques
  • Present findings and data-supported insight to collaborative modeling team
  • Collaboratively support engineering and operations teams to deploy models into production environments
  • Required qualifications :

  • Master’s degree, or Bachelor’s degree with 2-4 years of experience, or High School diploma with 8-10 years of experience
  • Strong written and verbal interpersonal communication skills
  • Proven excellent attention to detail
  • Demonstrated high degree of organization
  • US citizen with the ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance
  • Willingness to relocate to Bentonville, Arkansas
  • Preferred qualifications :

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science
  • Real-world experience with data mining
  • Experience with mathematical modeling
  • Experience with numerical methods
  • COMPANY INFORMATION :

    Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company known for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. We employ over 2,000 professionals and continue to grow. ARA offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

    While this is all of the Year One and Beyond stuff, Day One is highly impressive too. These are things like our competitive salary, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) & 401(k) with matching program, benefits package which includes medical, dental vision, flex spending, telehealth services, company-paid life & disability insurance including paid maternity disability leave through our company-paid short-term disability benefit, domestic partner coverage, dependent care flex spending, daycare discounts, pet insurance, relocation opportunities, floating holidays, tuition reimbursement, professional development as well as flexible schedules. ARA also prides ourselves on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm.

    ARA is passionate about inclusion and diversity in our workplace. We seek colleagues who will contribute to the unique culture that makes ARA such a great place to work. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please apply at careers.ara.com.

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