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Senior Level Data Scientist

Sancorp Consulting LLC
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/8/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/8/2025

Senior Level Data Scientist 

Position Summary:  

Position Description:  

Senior Level Data Scientist 

Location:  

Falls Church, Pentagon, Alexandria, and Arlington, VA 

Work Posture:  

On-Site 

Travel:  

Minimal 

Deployment: 

No 

Drug screening: 

Yes 

Security Clearance: 

Citizenship: 

TS with SCI Eligibility 

Yes 

Education 

Bachelor’s degree plus 7-10 years of experience, or a Master’s Degree plus 5 years of experience. 

Required Experience 

  • Experience with ML fields, e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, statistical learning theory.
  • Hands-on experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models, text embedding, semantic query, use of generative AI for text, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG).
  • Familiarity with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques essential for machine learning projects.
  • Strong understanding of various machine learning algorithms, including supervised and unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and neural networks.
  • Experience with version control systems like Git, enabling effective collaboration and code management.
  • Experience in an ML engineer or data scientist role building ML models
  • Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C with documentation for reproducibility.
  • Experience using Apache Spark/Databricks distributed compute environments for AI/ML workloads.
  • Experience handling petabyte size datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualization tools, writing SQL, and working with GPUs to develop models.
  • Experience with cloud-based data persistence products, especially RDS PostgreSQL and PostgreSQL extensions such as pgvector.
  • Experience persisting vectorized data from text embedding processes using Elastic and/or OpenSearch, in addition to vector enabled RDBMS like pgvector enhanced PostgreSQL.
  • Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences and giving data-driven presentations.

 

 

Salary: 

Commensurate with experience 

 

Responsibilities: 

 

SANCORP is seeking a Senior Level Data Scientist in support of the Department of Defense (DoD), Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). The CDAO accelerates the adoption of data, analytics, and AI to enhance decision-making and warfighting capabilities, providing a managed data service for developing, testing, and deploying AI-driven solutions to support DoD and Intelligence Community operations. The following are examples of responsibilities:  

  • Designs, configures, develops, tests, and supports informatics and data science solutions for a wide array of technical use cases.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and software engineers to integrate AI solutions developed by other elements of CDAO or the DoD community into Search Portfolio products when appropriate.
  • Optimize AI models for performance, scalability, and efficiency, leveraging cloud-based resources and distributed computing frameworks, specifically Apache Spark/Databricks. Ability to adapt code base to also run using GPU enabled Kubernetes clusters.
  • Stay updated on and contribute to the latest advancements in AI research, applying new findings to improve Search Portfolio products.
  • Manage the lifecycle of AI/ML components used in Search Portfolio products from research and development to deployment and optimization.
  • Applies analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance.
  • Documents and presents requirements, design alternatives, and findings to team members and clients;
  • Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships; and
  • Experience with integrated development environments, data integration, data visualization, data mining, and analysis tools.
  • Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
  • Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping.

 

Sancorp Consulting LLC shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Sancorp’s changing needs. This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate at Sancorp’s sole discretion. 

Sancorp Consulting, LLC, is an SDVOSB and SBA 8(a) company seeking highly motivated and qualified professionals and offer an attractive salary and benefits package that includes: Medical, Dental, life and Disability Insurance; 401K, and holidays to ensure the highest quality of life for our employees. Please visit our website for more information at www.sancorpconsulting.com. 

Sancorp Consulting, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. At Sancorp Consulting, LLC we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic as defined by applicable law. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. 

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