Computer Scientist - Senior

invictusic; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

invictusic in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Computer Scientist to lead advanced data science and software engineering efforts for national security missions. You will apply mathematics, AI, ML, and data analytics to produce actionable intelligence products and guidance, translating complex requirements into deployable technical solutions.

The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly, plus experience with distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with eight years of relevant experience.
• Current active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain and maintain CI polygraph.
• Advanced proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and software paradigms.
• Expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architectures, and microservices.
• Experience leading software development teams or managing complex system development efforts.
• Proficiency with DevSecOps practices and end-to-end CI/CD pipeline management.
• Experience optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Deep understanding of DOD and federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex intelligence requirements into technical capabilities.
• Experience mentoring junior developers and providing technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Employs mathematics, statistics, AI/ML, and data engineering to translate intelligence data into graphical and written products.
• Develops machine learning and data mining algorithms based on open-source capabilities.
• Integrates or codes algorithms to support government intelligence search and discovery missions.
• Makes best-practice recommendations on data management within hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth constraints.
• Uses data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-sourced analytics, wargaming, and strategy development.
• Prepares products describing and documenting findings and activities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Microservices

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Team leadership

Performance optimization

Cybersecurity compliance

Mentoring

DOD knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Title: Computer Scientist - Senior

Location: Washington, DC

Clearance: TS/SCI with ability to obtain and maintain CI polygraph

Responsibilities:

• Employs mathematics, statics, information science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, network science, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and/or scientific techniques to correlate complex, technical findings into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products on trends of existing intelligence data to leverage other IC data sources.
• Develops and utilizes machine learning and data mining and prediction algorithms based on open-source capabilities.
• Integrates or codes algorithms to support Government intelligence search and discovery missions.
• Makes best-practice recommendations on managing data within hardware, software, storage and bandwidth constraints.
• Employs data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-source data analytics, wargaming, and strategy development. Employs exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.
• Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred, with eight (8) years of relevant experience
• Current active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
• Advanced proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and software paradigms.
• Expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architectures, and microservices.
• Experience leading software development teams or managing complex system development efforts.
• Proficiency with DevSecOps practices and end-to-end CI/CD pipeline management.
• Experience optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Deep understanding of DOD and federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex intelligence requirements into technical capabilities.
• Experience mentoring junior developers and providing technical direction.