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Data Scientist (active TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly Clearance required) – 1691
Location: Fort Mead, MD - Onsite
Relocation: Not offered but a sign on bonus can help offset moving expenses
Full-time employment
Visa: US Citizen only and you need to have an active TS/SCI security clearance with the full scope Polygraph required
Job Summary
Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, with exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
Position Responsibilities:
Required Degree and Experience:
Must have:
Location: Fort Mead, MD - Onsite
Relocation: Not offered but a sign on bonus can help offset moving expenses
Full-time employment
Visa: US Citizen only and you need to have an active TS/SCI security clearance with the full scope Polygraph required
Job Summary
Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of companies across numerous industries, with exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools.
Position Responsibilities:
- A data scientist will develop machine learning, data mining, statistical and graph-based algorithms to analyze and make sense of datasets; prototype or consider several algorithms and decide upon final model based on suitable performance metrics; build models or develop experiments to generate data when training or example datasets are unavailable; generate reports and visualizations that summarize datasets and provide data-driven insights to customers; partner with subject matter experts to translate manual data analysis into automated analytics; implement prototype algorithms within production frameworks for integration into analyst workflows.
Required Degree and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering or computer science) 7 years of experience
- Masters Degree 5 years of experience
- PhD 2 years of experience
Must have:
- Programming experience with data analysis software such as R, Python, SAS, or MATLAB.
- Develop experiments to collect data or models to simulate data when required data is unavailable.
- Develop feature vectors for input into machine learning algorithms.
- Identify the most appropriate algorithm for a given dataset and tune input and model parameters.
- Evaluate and validate the performance of analytics using standard techniques and metrics (e.g. cross validation, ROC curves, confusion matrices).
- Oversee the development of individual analytic efforts and guide team in analytic development process.
- Guide analytic development toward solutions that can scale to large datasets.
- Partner with software engineers and cloud developers to develop production analytics.
- Develop and train machine learning systems based on statistical analysis of data characteristics to support mission automation.
