Data Scientist - NLP

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer paid health care

Bonuses

401k match

Training funds

Job summary

Analytica is seeking a Data Scientist to support long term federal client engagements in the DC Metro area. The role will apply statistical programming, modeling, visualization techniques, data mining, and forecasting skills to analyze challenging public sector problems. This position is fully remote.

This is a temporary position with the potential to convert to a full-time, regular employee role. Analytica offers competitive compensation with bonuses, employer paid health care, training funds,

Qualifications

• Master's degree required; PhD preferred in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar.
• Experience with SAS, R, or Python for NLP tasks like Document Summarization, NER, Sentiment Analysis, or Topic Modeling.
• At least four years developing scalable, production-ready NLP solutions using scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP.
• Proficient with Git for version control of source code.
• Experience leveraging transformer architectures to develop NLP models.
• Experience with open-source NLP packages such as Gensim, SpaCy, or NLTK.
• Experience with BERT, GPT-J, RoBERTa, T5 or other transformers.
• Experience with GenAI and Prompt Engineering is a plus.
• Experience with Databricks and MLFlow is a plus.
• Experience with machine translation and transcription using Microsoft Azure translation services is a plus.
• Experience working in an AWS cloud environment with Bedrock and Textract.
• Experience coordinating and maintaining user stories.
• Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Pre-processing data using Python, including stop word removal, stemming, lemmatization, and tokenization.
• Feature engineering and evaluation with NLP methods like TF-IDF, word2vec, GloVe, and FastText.
• Modeling with supervised/unsupervised ML, regression, neural networks and deep learning, NLP.
• Validation: investigate, report, and justify model results.
• Visualization of results and communication of insights to stakeholders.

Skills

NLP techniques

Python

R

SAS

Transformer models

Git

AWS

Databricks

Gensim

SpaCy

NLTK

Prompt engineering

Education

Master's degree

PhD preferred

Tools

scikit-learn

Keras

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark NLP

Azure

Job description

Analytica is seeking a Data Scientist to support long term federal client engagements projects in the DC Metro area. The role will apply statistical programming, modeling, visualization techniques, data mining, and forecasting skills to analyze challenging public sector problems.

This position is fully remote. This is a temporary position with the potential to convert to a full-time, regular employee role based on business needs, project funding, and individual performance. While full-time employment is not guaranteed, candidates who demonstrate strong performance and are a good long-term fit will be considered for permanent opportunities as they become available.

Analytica has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as a fastest-growing private US small business. We work with U.S. government customers in health, civilian, and national security missions. Analytica offers competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses, employer paid health care, training and development funds, and 401k match.

Responsibilities include:

• Pre-processing - Demonstrate the skills and experience to collect, clean, and prepare data sets for input into a computational model using Python. Strong candidates will explain various methods you have applied using common pre-processing functions such as stop word removal, stemming, lemmatization, and tokenization.
• Feature Engineering and Attribute Evaluation - Candidate must demonstrate experience with NLP feature engineering methods such as TF-IDF, word2vec, GloVe, and FastText identifying the key determinants for modeling that exist in the business process and within existing data sets as well as selecting evaluation protocols (model techniques).
• Modeling - Candidates will have practiced skills and experience selecting classification modeling techniques to fit the business problem. Examples will include techniques such as machine learning (ML) supervised and unsupervised learning, regression, neural networks and deep learning, natural language processing, etc.
• Validation - Strong candidates will describe their experience with investigating, reporting, and justifying model results.

• Visualization- Experience in presenting the results of their modeling activities, depicting the insights realized, and explaining the relevance of their results to the organization’s business challenges.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree required, and PhD preferred in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar
• High degree of experience utilizing SAS, R, or Python to support NLP use cases such as Document Summarization, Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and/or Topic Modeling
• At least four years of experience developing scalable, production-ready NLP solutions using sci-kit learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP.
• Experience using git/github to version control source code
• Experience leveraging transformer architecture to develop NLP models
• Experience with open source NLP packages such as Gensim, SpaCy, or NLTK.
• Experience with BERT, GPT-J, RoBERTa, T5 or other transformers
• Experience with GenAI and Prompt Engineering is a plus
• Experience in Databricks and MLFlow is a plus
• Experience with machine translation and transcription of foreign language documents using Microsoft Azure translation services is a plus
• Experience working in an AWS cloud environment and with related AWS services such as Bedrock and Textract
• Experience coordinating and maintaining user stories
• Must be a US citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public trust security clearance

AboutANALYTICA: Analytica is a leading consulting and information technology solutions provider to public sector organizations supporting health, civilian, and national security missions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bethesda, MD, the company is an established SBA small business that has been recognized by Inc. Magazine each of the past three years as one of the 250 fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Analytica specializes in providing software and systems engineering, information management, analytics & visualization, agile project management, and management consulting services. The company is appraised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at CMMI® Maturity Level 3 and is an ISO 9001:2008 certified provider.

Analytica LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. As a federal contractor, we comply with the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans. We ensure that all employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. Analytica LLC also provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.