Data Scientist - NLP

Analytica; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Employer-paid health care

Training funds

401k match

Job summary

Analytica seeks 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 to analyze challenging public sector problems. This position is fully remote.

This is a temporary role with potential to convert to full-time based on business needs, project funding, and individual performance. Analytica works with U.S.

Qualifications

• Master's degree required in Statistics, Mathematics, CS or related field.
• Extensive experience with SAS, R, or Python for NLP use cases such as Summarization, NER, Sentiment, or Topic Modeling.
• 4+ years building scalable NLP solutions with scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP.

Responsibilities

• Pre-processing data: cleaning and preparing datasets for modeling using Python and NLP techniques.
• Feature engineering and evaluation: apply TF-IDF, word embeddings, and evaluation protocols to identify determinants.
• Modeling: develop supervised/unsupervised ML, neural networks, and NLP models.
• Validation: analyze and justify model results and performance.
• Visualization: present insights and relevance to business challenges.

Skills

NLP

Python

R

SAS

git/GitHub

scikit-learn

Keras

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Spark NLP

Gensim

SpaCy

NLTK

Transformers

BERT

GPT-J

RoBERTa

T5

GenAI

MLFlow

Databricks

AWS Bedrock/Textract

Education

Master's degree in Statistics/Mathematics/CS or similar

PhD preferred

Tools

Spark NLP

GitHub

Databricks

MLFlow

TensorFlow

Keras

PyTorch

scikit-learn

Gensim

SpaCy

NLTK

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

• 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.

About ANALYTICA

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.

To enhance efficiency, fairness, and accuracy, Analytica may use AI-assisted tools to support certain aspects of our hiring process. Application Review: AI tools may help identify skills and experiences relevant to the role. Interview Support: AI-powered notetaking tools may be used during interviews to document discussions and summarize key points. These tools are used to assist our team. All hiring decisions are made by Analytica recruiters and hiring managers. By submitting an application, you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used to support parts of the application and interview process. When receiving email communication from Analytica , please ensure that the email domain is analytica.net to verify its authenticity.