Data Scientist

TS/SCI and Poly is Required

Herndon, VA

This position will include a variety of activities, including:

• Participation with iterative software development teams with adherence to all reporting requirements
• Designing, developing and unit testing code for a production system and demonstration capabilities
• Developing iterative screen mockups, use of rapid prototyping to drive out requirements and design
• Providing demonstrations and detailed walk through of features to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences
• Meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirements, developing user stories and related artifacts, and translating these into software development tasks
• Working with systems engineers to specify and design the final system
• Development of technical documentation and briefing materials to support program status reviews, control gates, and other presentations as directed

Required Skills

• Demonstrated job experience with text analytics and its applications/role/use in business intelligence/business analytics (i.e. search, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, document summarization, document categorization)
• Demonstrated job experience to cleanse and process (Extract, Transform, Load - ETL) large raw data sets.
• Demonstrated job experience researching and implementing novel machine learning algorithms for new business problems
• Demonstrated job experience developing proof of concepts of new technologies and evaluate the state of the art in machine learning algorithms for text analytics
• Demonstrated job experience in designing (in Python and/or Java) and developing web-based platforms and services to perform data analytics on large data sets
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, test and implement new applications based on project requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or other relevant field and minimum of six years of experience (Master’s degree equates to an additional 2 years of relevant work experience)

Benefits:

• 8% Gifted 401K (no match required)

• 6 Weeks of PTO

• Paid Training

• Tuition Reimbursements

• Fully Covered Healthcare (for you and dependents)