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Lead Machine Learning Data Science Engineer

NLP PEOPLE
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/28/2025

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That’s because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation’s toughest challenges—and we’re committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We’re making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world.

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Department Summary :

MITRE’s Data Science department is looking for qualified applicants to bring their machine learning, advanced analytics, and applied research skills to bear on solving problems of critical national importance. MITRE’s diverse work program provides opportunities to apply your expertise and creative thinking in challenging domains such as healthcare, transportation, and national security.

Roles & Responsibilities :

The successful candidate for this position is a data scientist who combines a solid theoretical and technical background with the ability to formulate problems, design and evaluate solutions, implement hands-on solutions, and communicate results to a variety of audiences. Familiarity with advanced data science techniques and methods (e.g., supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning) is a plus. Hands-on software development skills are a must. Our organization values innovation and lifelong learning and believes that in today’s fast-paced technological environment keeping up with the latest research and technologies is an essential part of working in this field.

  • Provide technical leadership on projects, either to junior staff or as a member of team as a stand-alone senior subject matter expert.
  • Translate complex results into actionable recommendations that can be understood by senior leadership and non-technical audiences.
  • Have strong technical writing and presentation skills.

Basic Qualifications :

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of hands-on relevant experience using data science techniques, including statistical analysis, mathematical optimization, machine learning, deep learning, or reinforcement learning with a PhD.
  • Experience using existing AI framework (e.g., TensorFlow, Caffe, Cognitive Toolkit, Torch).
  • Apply a variety of data science techniques to tackle customer challenges to include machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, computer vision, reinforcement learning, statistical modeling, mathematical optimization, and data visualization.
  • Apply data science rigor throughout the machine learning lifecycle to ensure reproducibility and trustworthiness.
  • Develop, test and evaluate, and demonstrate data science and machine learning solutions.
  • Build and test prototypes in on-premises (e.g. VMWare, Linux-based platforms) and commercial cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure).
  • Apply state of the art techniques using programming languages and development environments to drive advances in mission capabilities for MITRE sponsors.
  • Proficient in Python and SQL.
  • Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a US Government Clearance.
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.
  • Preferred Qualifications :

  • Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Knowledge or experience with trusted machine learning.
  • Experience applying deep learning techniques.
  • Experience with Generative AI (e.g., LLM, SLMs, RAG, GraphRAG, GANs).
  • Knowledge of MLOps, particularly in the AWS environment.
  • Possess an active US Government Clearance.
  • This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) : None.

    This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s) : Secret.

    Work Location Type : Hybrid.

    MITRE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. MITRE recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of age; ancestry; color; family medical or genetic information; gender identity and expression; marital, military, or veteran status; national and ethnic origin; physical or mental disability; political affiliation; pregnancy; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; and any other protected characteristics.

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