Data Scientist

Freedom Technology Solutions Group; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Competitive compensation

Fully paid medical

401k matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Data Scientist to develop, run, and analyze complex queries on massive data stores and to enhance NLP capabilities. The role covers data manipulation, reporting, and analytic support across distributed environments.

The ideal candidate has strong NLP, Python, and SQL skills, with experience in deep learning frameworks, transformers, and GPUs. A polygraph-verified security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance with polygraph.
• Experience with Python NLP libraries (Spacy, Gensim, NLTK).
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras).
• Experience with HuggingFace Transformers.
• Experience with text classification and topic modeling in Python.
• Experience with encoder-decoder and generative NLP models.
• Ability to communicate methodological choices and results.
• Strong SQL experience including CTEs, set operations and subqueries.
• Version control experience with GitHub and Jenkins.
• Experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.

Responsibilities

• Analyze high-volume structured and unstructured data for reporting and products.
• Perform NLP analyses, data processing, and results validation.
• Develop and test ML models for text tasks and semantic search.
• Contribute to large-scale parallel data processing in clustered environments.
• Measure performance and present findings to senior leadership.

Skills

NLP tasks

Python NLP libraries

Deep learning frameworks

HuggingFace Transformers

Text classification

Topic modeling

Encoder-decoder models

Communicating methodology

SQL

GitHub

Jenkins

GPU computing

Tools

Spacy

Gensim

NLTK

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

HuggingFace

Scikit-learn

Job description

Freedom Technology Solutions Group is looking for a Data Scientist to apply and enhance their skills with developing, running, and analyzing results of complex queries against massive scale data stores. The candidate will also increase their skills with the following:

• Manipulating high-volume structured and unstructured data to perform analysis and generate reporting/products.
• Using analytic techniques and tools and All-Source data analysis to provide technical targeting analytic support to the Sponsor Agency.
• Performing large scale parallel processing of data, and developing, validating, and using methodologies to support analytic requirements in Clustered Computing environments.

Required Skills:

• An active security clearance with polygraph.
• 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.
• Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.

Desired Skills:

• 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.

What’s in It for You?

Flexible work environment

A team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionals

Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies

Enjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefits

A work-life balance you can count on

Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime

The Benefits You Get with Freedom

Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more

Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days

Competitive salary offerings

Paid training and tuition reimbursement

Fully paid life and disability

Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours)

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or veteran status

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