811993 Data Scientist $210,000.00

B4Corp; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 189,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

7 weeks PTO

Full Vanguard 401k with employer match

Phantom stock

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking a Data Scientist to work closely with the Customer’s data scientists and technical team in McLean, VA. The role requires TS/SCI with a polygraph and focuses on sophisticated NLP analysis, large-scale data processing, and publishing analytic results using customer templates.

Responsibilities include ETL design, SQL development, and data visualization, with opportunities to mentor staff and contribute to research publications.

Qualifications

• Experience performing NLP tasks, selecting Python libraries, preprocessing data, evaluating models.
• Experience using Python NLP packages (Spacy, Gensim, NLTK) to analyze document collections.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras).
• Experience with HuggingFace Transformers for NLP tasks.
• Experience building ML models for text classification and topic modeling in Python.
• Experience with encoder-decoder and generative language models for NLP tasks.
• Ability to communicate methodological choices and results clearly.
• Proficient SQL usage (CTEs, set operations, aggregates, subqueries).
• Version control experience (GitHub, Jenkins).
• Experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Ability to measure performance and present findings to leadership.
• Assist in methodology selection for research and provide actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large amounts of raw text data to provide business insights.
• Preprocess and clean structured and unstructured data.
• Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations.
• Use SQL in Oracle to organize information for analytics.
• Author analytic publications and ad-hoc reports with visualizations.
• Stay current with enterprise metadata tools and coordination processes.
• Provide technical education to staff as needed.
• Offer NLP subject matter expertise to support initiatives.

Skills

NLP

Python

SQL

GitHub

Jenkins

GPUs

ETL

Data Visualization

Deep Learning

Tools

Spacy

Gensim

NLTK

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

HuggingFace

Scikit-learn

Excel

Job description

Description

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

The Candidate shall work closely with the Customer’s data scientists and technical team to implement requirements; however, the Customer’s GTM will manage the priorities.

• The Candidate shall conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
• The Candidate shall analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
• The Candidate shall preprocess or clean structured and unstructured Customer data, including text data.
• The Candidate shall design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
• The Candidate shall use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Customer’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
• The Candidate shall independently, or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualizations using the Customer’s templates.
• The Candidate shall stay current with the Customer’s enterprise metadata collection tools.
• The Candidate shall implement the Customer’s existing coordination process.
• The Candidate shall provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis.
• The Candidate shall provide subject matter expertise in NLP to support Customer’s initiatives

Details

Labor Category: Data Scientist

Position Title: Data Scientist

Position Level: Level 2 – Expert

Salary: Up to $210,000.00 per year

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Location: McLean VA

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
• Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit-learn) or deep learning models.
• Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
• Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
• Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
• Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research. 15. Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.

Optional Requirements

• Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture
• Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
• Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations.

B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs.

B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so and email them to [e-mail].