Data Scientist Development Program — Mission Analytics

National Security Agency; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 87,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Training provided

Job summary

National Security Agency seeks a senior-level data scientist for enrollment in the three-year Data Science Development Program, working on big data, HPC, machine learning, and related methods to support foreign intelligence and cybersecurity missions.

The role is based onsite at Fort Meade, MD, with a structured program emphasizing analytics lifecycle, dataset development, and collaboration across teams to deliver mission-relevant results.

Qualifications

• Degrees in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science or computer engineering qualify without additional coursework.
• Engineering/physical sciences degrees require a DS certificate or 5+ advanced math and/or CS courses.
• Other degrees must include a DS certificate and 5+ courses in advanced math and CS.
• At least one course from advanced mathematics and one from advanced CS is required.

Responsibilities

• Explore data analysis and model fitting to uncover features of interest.
• Apply machine learning predictive modeling.
• Construct datasets from multiple sources to meet customer needs.
• Identify and analyze anomalous data and metadata.
• Develop conceptual design and models for mission requirements.
• Create qualitative and quantitative methods to characterize datasets.
• Perform analytic modeling, scripting, and programming.
• Collaborate across the data science lifecycle in teams.
• Design analytics techniques for analysis and visualization.
• Analyze data using statistical methods and mathematics.
• Document and communicate research processes and results to customers and leadership.
• Create interpretable visualizations.

Skills

Continual learning

Oral and written communication

Detail oriented

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Bridge technical/non-technical

Technical leadership

Education

Mathematics / Statistics / Data Science degree

Engineering or CS with DS cert or 5+ advanced math/CS courses

Data Science certificate required with other degrees

Job description

National Security Agency seeks a senior-level data scientist for enrollment in the three-year Data Science Development Program, working on big data, HPC, machine learning, and related methods to support foreign intelligence and cybersecurity missions.

The role is based onsite at Fort Meade, MD, with a structured program emphasizing analytics lifecycle, dataset development, and collaboration across teams to deliver mission-relevant results.