Data Scientist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Professional development

Job summary

Two Six Technologies seeks an experienced Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist to join cross‑functional product teams focused on information operations. You will develop and deploy AI‑powered data insights for national security clients, with autonomy to explore innovative agentic AI solutions.

The role involves building prototypes, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and delivering end‑to‑end data science capabilities, including NLP and multilingual analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Physics, CS, Math, Statistics, Economics, Engineering or similar; higher degrees preferred.
• 3+ years in a Data Science role (or 1+ with a PhD) and 2+ years Python experience.
• Experience with agentic and generative AI; LangChain/LangGraph; prompt engineering; LLM integration.
• Strong ML foundation: feature engineering, model training, evaluation; supervised/unsupervised learning; anomaly detection.
• Solid grasp of statistics, tests, distributions, and maximum likelihood estimators; familiar with ML tooling and version control.
• Experience in Agile environments and using Jira; able to own projects and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer needs into data science and engineering problems with cross‑functional teams.
• Prototype and evaluate high‑quality data science solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy production‑level software.
• Design experiments to test data sampling and collection strategies.
• Advance product roadmap with near‑ and long‑term data science initiatives.
• Work on agentic systems, AI tools, and multi‑language analytics.

Skills

Python (2+ yrs)

Agentic AI

Generative AI

LangChain / LangGraph

Prompt engineering

LLMs in pipelines

Model training

Feature engineering

Anomaly detection

Statistical methods

Statistical tests

MLE (maximum likelihood)

Version control

Agile & Jira

Project leadership

English communication

Math/Statistics background

Education

Bachelor's degree (quantitative)

Higher degree preferred

Tools

Git

Jira

ML libraries (scikit-learn, PyTorch)

Job description

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist to join one of our cross‑functional product development teams here at Two Six Technologies. Our teams are building capabilities to identify, plan, and deliver effects in the information operations space, and aim to provide a complete end‑to‑end solution to customers wishing to detect, analyze, and respond to events in real time. We combine signal‑rich proprietary data, novel AI‑powered technology, and world‑class expertise to deliver valuable insights to our US government and Fortune 50 clients.

We’re seeking a curious and passionate Data Scientist who will help our customers discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data to sense, make sense, and act in the Information Environment. In this role, you will work autonomously to find creative solutions and tackle challenging problems with cutting‑edge technology, with a current focus on Agentic AI. The role is a great fit if you’re motivated by autonomy, innovation, and mission‑focused data problems in uncharted territory to advance missions of national security.

As a part of the Data Science team you’ll have opportunities to work on projects that expand your skills, learn from peer mentors, and iterate internal research and development. We regularly experiment with a range of data science techniques to build tools and produce insights. Our team works with agentic and generative AI, machine learning, network analysis, sampling methodologies, multi‑language NLP, data visualization, and more.

Responsibilities

• Work with our product and customer support teams to turn abstract customer needs into concrete data science and/or engineering problems
• Experiment with and evaluate potential solutions to develop high quality prototypes
• Work with our engineering team to turn prototypes into scalable production‑level software
• Work on agentic systems – designing prototypes, adding tools, evaluating effectiveness
• Be responsible for projects that span statistical and mathematical reasoning, business communications and leadership, and software development
• Contribute to the product roadmap both near‑term tactical and longer‑term strategic levels
• Experiment with a range of data science techniques to produce insight, including machine learning, deep learning, network analysis, sampling methodologies, text analytics in multiple languages and data visualization
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate the integrity of our data sampling and data collection strategies
• Work on ad‑hoc analyses or build prototype tools to support our subject matter expert and customer support teams
• Participate in strategic discussions about the direction data science should be taking the company

Skills and Experience

• Background
  • Strong quantitative background with Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or similar field. Higher degrees preferred
  • You have 3+ years experience in a Data Science role (or 1+ with a PhD), including 2+ years experience with Python programming language (Intermediate‑level or higher)
• Technical
  • Experience with agentic and generative AI. Examples include
    • Building agentic systems
    • Building tools for agentic systems
    • Evaluating agentic systems and/or generative AI solutions
    • LangChain and/or LangGraph frameworks
    • Model Context Protocol and Agent2Agent Protocol
    • Prompt engineering
    • Leveraging LLMs within analytical pipelines
    • Training or fine‑tuning LLMs
  • Experience with Machine Learning, including
    • Feature selection/engineering
    • Model training
    • Model evaluation
    • Supervised and Unsupervised ML
    • Simulation
    • Anomaly detection
  • A good understanding of statistics, including familiarity with statistical tests, distributions, and maximum likelihood estimators
  • Previous experience with code version control
  • Familiarity with software development processes and tools like the Agile methodology and Jira
• Project Ownership
  • You’ve scoped and planned data science projects and have the ability to creatively navigate technical limitations, iterate to solve hard questions, and learn quickly and independently.
  • You are comfortable leading solutions for ambiguous tasks and complex problems, and are capable of independently providing solutions that fit within the business strategy.
  • You propose pragmatic solutions that are as simple as possible and can be iterated upon.
  • You're comfortable working remotely on a distributed data science team with a diverse set of skills and life experiences, while embedded in a product team as owner of data science innovations to the product.
• Communication
  • You have strong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non‑technical customers. You have experience participating in meetings with a multitude of stakeholders (e.g., Product, Engineering, Operations, Management) and can communicate in a crisp manner. Mastery of English is required for this role, including communication at all levels of technical expertise.

Clearance

Must be eligible and willing to obtain a clearance.

Travel

Up to 10% Travel

Benefits

Two Six Technologies offers a competitive and comprehensive compensation package that reflects the value we place on our employees and their contributions. Our offerings include medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; retirement benefits; paid leave; tuition assistance; and professional development. Salary is determined by education, experience, skills, geographic location, and organizational needs.

Two Six Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. For more information review the Two Six Technologies Equal Employment Opportunity and Affinity Action Policy and the EEO Poster.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request reasonable workplace accommodation for any part of our employment process, please send an email to [e-mail]. Information provided will be kept confidential and used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Additionally, please be advised that this business uses E‑Verify in its hiring practices.