Data Scientist

AECOM; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in national security as a Data Scientist, leveraging your skills to analyze big data and provide actionable insights. This role offers a blend of autonomy and teamwork, focusing on innovative solutions in a mission-driven environment. With ongoing opportunities for learning and professional growth, you'll work on significant projects that shape security strategies.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data science or analytics.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as R or Python.
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform.
• Analyze big data for national security and cyber security.
• Contribute to publications with actionable intelligence insights.

Skills

Data Science

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Research Design

Education

B.S. Degree in quantitative field

Master’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

**Description**

Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Are you a TS/SCI cleared **Data Scientist** that likes to perform research-level data science/analytics?

Come support a major program advancing the state of the art in mission-focused big data and predictive analytics. You will be delivering cutting edge data science capabilities to advance national security objectives, swiftly produce and analyze results, disseminate findings, and contribute to publications and presentations with actionable intelligence insights. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

**Fun stuff you will do:**

+ Work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists, as well as a larger team of software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts to design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform to produce and analyze results, disseminate findings, and contribute to publications and presentations.

+ Work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data covering national security, cyber security, business intelligence, online social media, human behavior and more.

+ Support multiple simultaneous projects and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant, and package and deliver the findings to a non-technical audience.

+ Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel sources of data across a range of fields, to improve the performance of predictive algorithms, and to encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.

+ Leverage your strong background in research design, exploratory analysis, quantitative methods, user interface application design, and experience with customer outreach and engagement

**To be successful in this role you need the following (required):**

+ B.S. Degree in a quantitative or analytical field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or Computational Social Science; or Master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree including certificate-based advanced training courses

+ 4+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes. 2+ years of experience required with a Master’s

+ Must have an active TS/SCI clearance and must be able to obtain and maintain a Polygraph

+ Proficiency in one or more scripting languages such as R or Python

+ Experience working with a hybrid team of analyst, engineers, and developers to conduct research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use algorithms and analytical platforms

+ Previous experience performing Data Science or Research in data analytics or big data.

+ Track record of active learning and creative problem solving

+ Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.

+ Familiarity using git, svn, JIRA, or other version control technologies

**You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:**

+ A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.

+ Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source, publicly available information (PAI); forensic media (i.e. DOMEX); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics

+ Experience with information retrieval and search, e.g. Structured Query Language (SQL), and/or Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch and Kibana)

+ Deployment of data science applications (e.g. Streamlit) using Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift.

+ Experience with Knowledge Graphs and KG tech such as neo4j or graph ML.

+ Experience developing predictive algorithms, image classifiers, object detectors, and others.

+ Familiarity with social network analysis, supply chain analysis, forensic accounting, pattern of life, natural language processing, social media analysis, classification algorithms, and/or image processing.

+ Experience blending analytical methodologies and leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in an unconventional manner.

+ Familiarity utilizing virtualization and distributed field systems, such as virtual environments and Hadoop (or similar distributed file systems) in development and deployment environments.

+ Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS/C2S)

+ Familiarity with hardware platforms, e.g., CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.

**Original Posting:**

June 4, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

**Pay Range:**

Pay Range $85,150.00 - $153,925.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00160351

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.