811994 Data Scientist $230,000.00

B4Corp; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Phantom stock

Medical insurance

PTO seven weeks

Flexible work schedule

Referral bonus

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking a Data Scientist in McLean, VA, to work with the customer’s data scientists and technical team on NLP tasks and advanced analytics. This role requires TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph and offers a competitive salary up to $230,000 per year.

You will develop NLP solutions, build ETL pipelines, write advanced SQL in Oracle, and create data visualizations and ad-hoc reports. The position emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and staying current with enterprise tools.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated NLP experience with Python libraries, preprocessing, and model evaluation.
• Experience with Python NLP packages (SpaCy, Gensim, NLTK) to analyze documents.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow or Keras).
• Experience with transformer models (HuggingFace) and language modeling.
• Proficiency in SQL including CTEs, set operations, aggregations, and subqueries.
• Experience with version control (GitHub) and CI/CD (Jenkins).
• Experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Ability to measure performance and present findings to leadership.
• Strong communication of methods and results.

Responsibilities

• Conduct sophisticated NLP analyses on large text datasets.
• Analyze raw data to provide business insights.
• Preprocess structured and unstructured data including text data.
• Design and optimize ETL pipelines and data structures.
• Use SQL to organize information in Oracle databases for analytics.
• Produce ad-hoc reports and visualizations using templates.
• Stay current with enterprise metadata tools and coordination processes.
• Provide technical education to staff as needed.
• Offer SME NLP expertise to support initiatives.

Skills

NLP

Python

SQL

Machine Learning

GitHub

Jenkins

GPUs

Tableau

Tools

Oracle database

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SpaCy

NLTK

Gensim

HuggingFace

Scikit-learn

Tableau

Job description

Labor Category: Data Scientist
Position Title: Data Scientist
Position Level: Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $230,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: McLean VA

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 1 - Subject Matter Expert
Salary: Up to $230,000.00 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)

1. 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.
2. Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
3. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
4. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
5. 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.
6. Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
7. Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
8. Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
9. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
10. Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
11. Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
12. Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
13. Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
14. 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:

1. Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
2. Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture
3. Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
4. Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
5. Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
6. 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)

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