Data Scientist

Bespoke Technologies, Inc.; McLean, Northern (VA, KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bespoke Technologies, Inc. seeks a Data Scientist to advance NLP projects onsite in McLean, VA. Candidates must hold an active poly clearance and have strong Python, DL, and transformer experience. The role emphasizes model evaluation, data analysis, and presenting findings to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include building text classification and topic modeling systems, working with SQL databases, and leveraging GPUs for performance. Collaboration across teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience performing NLP tasks with Python libraries and evaluating model performance.
• Experience with SpaCy, Gensim or NLTK for document processing.
• Experience with DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras).
• Experience with HuggingFace transformers.
• Experience building text classification and topic modeling models.
• Experience with encoder-decoder and generative language models for NLP tasks.
• Ability to communicate methodological choices and results.
• Proficiency in SQL including CTEs, sets, aggregates, and nested queries.
• Experience with GitHub and Jenkins for version control and CI/CD.
• Experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Ability to measure performance and present data to leadership.
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop NLP solutions and evaluate models for text data.
• Build and deploy text classification and topic modeling models in Python.
• Work with DL frameworks and transformers for NLP tasks.
• Analyze data, design study methodology, and present findings to leadership.
• Collaborate cross-functionally and communicate results clearly.

Skills

NLP tasks

Python

PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras

HuggingFace

Text classification

Encoder-decoder models

SQL

GitHub/Jenkins

GPU acceleration

Performance measurement

Statistical analysis

Research methodology

Communication of results

Tools

Spacy

Gensim

NLTK

Tableau

Flask

APIs & databases

Job description

BT-388– Data Scientist

Skill Level- Subject Matter Expert

Location: McLean, VA (fully on-site, no remote option)

Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.

Required Skills

• 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 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.