We are looking to hire a Data Scientist. The selected candidate will complete data science projects on a short-term, quick-reaction basis aligned with the Sponsor\’s requirements.
Highlights of Responsibilities:
- Arrange and participate in meetings to identify and document project requirements.
- Develop scripts and software programs to address requirements using programming languages, tools and computational methods.
- Leverage and implement appropriate mathematics and statistics methods.
- Create software interfaces and visualizations to convey the results of advanced analytics projects.
- Create a repository and process for cleaning, cataloging and storing data.
- Develop and use entity resolution and network analysis techniques.
- Create machine learning training data-sets and deep learning models.
- Automate existing workflows.
- Develop tools for dissemination.
- Evaluate outputs of existing algorithms with data science tools and methods.
- Build, test and deploy new automated approaches that identify activity of interest in large, complex data-sets.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor\’s Degree. (4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree).
- 5 years of experience in data science or a related field.
- Demonstrated knowledge of applied mathematics, computer programming and visualization.
- Ability to develop comprehensive software applications.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated knowledge of research designs.
- Demonstrated knowledge of collection methods, capabilities and tasking process.
- Demonstrated knowledge of issues of national concern.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Python and some of the following software/tools: SQL, R, Hadoop, Spark, Java, C/C++, Git, Bash, Tableau, ArcGIS, Unix commands
