Data Scientist

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