Data Engineer/Scientist (TS/SCI) — On-Site, High-Impact

Sphinx Sphinx; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Company paid health, vision, dental

Disability insurance

Job summary

Sphinx is seeking a Data Engineer/Scientist in Springfield, VA to support counterintelligence operations for a national-level IC customer. This hands-on role blends data engineering with applied data science, designing infrastructure that powers CI analytic workflows and deploying models on highly sensitive datasets in a mission-critical environment.

You will build data pipelines, deploy ML models, apply statistical methods, and optimize databases within accredited classified environments,

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with a current CI Polygraph (within the last 5 years)
• U.S. Citizenship (required for clearance eligibility)
• BS in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 8+ years of data engineering and/or data science experience
• Demonstrated experience in ML model development and data pipeline design (e.g., Airflow, Spark)
• Prior experience working in DoD or Intelligence Community classified environments
• DoD 8140 compliant — CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent) required

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure supporting counterintelligence and technical security analytical workflows
• Develop and deploy machine learning models and advanced analytics against complex, high-sensitivity datasets
• Apply statistical modeling and data science techniques to classified data to surface actionable insight
• Maintain and optimize database systems within accredited classified environments
• Partner with analysts and mission stakeholders to translate operational questions into technical solutions

Skills

8+ years experience in data eng/DS

ML model development

Airflow

Spark

DoD/IC experience

TS/SCI clearance

CI Polygraph

Education

BS in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Airflow

Spark

Hadoop

Kafka

Elasticsearch

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Sphinx is seeking a Data Engineer/Scientist in Springfield, VA to support counterintelligence operations for a national-level IC customer. This hands-on role blends data engineering with applied data science, designing infrastructure that powers CI analytic workflows and deploying models on highly sensitive datasets in a mission-critical environment.

You will build data pipelines, deploy ML models, apply statistical methods, and optimize databases within accredited classified environments,