Data Scientist - Security Analytics & NLP Specialist

Energy Jobline ZR; Brentwood (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in McLean, Virginia seeks a Data Scientist to join our Intel Sector Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA). The role focuses on building ML models, NLP, and data-driven decision support for security-critical projects.

Requirements include TS/SCI with Polygraph, Python expertise, experience with SQL, NLP libraries, and data visualization tools. The position offers competitive benefits and a path to impact national security missions.

Qualifications

• Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• BS degree and 8–12 years relevant technical experience or Master’s with 6–10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Python is required.
• Social network analysis (SNA) experience.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases and APIs for data extraction is required.
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning and NLP; familiarity with NLP libraries/tools.

Responsibilities

• Build statistical and machine learning models, including NLP, and develop automated solutions for complex business challenges.
• Construct and execute complex database search queries across multiple databases using SQL and API interfaces.
• Perform web scraping and process unstructured data using various techniques.
• Leverage automation and machine learning to manage data, predict scenarios, and make data-driven recommendations.
• Learn and leverage technologies including AWS and Git.

Skills

Python

Social network analysis

SQL

NLP

Statistical modeling

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Tableau

Plotly

Seaborn

Matplotlib

spaCy

Hugging Face

NLTK

TensorFlow

AWS

Job description

Leidos in McLean, Virginia seeks a Data Scientist to join our Intel Sector Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA). The role focuses on building ML models, NLP, and data-driven decision support for security-critical projects.

Requirements include TS/SCI with Polygraph, Python expertise, experience with SQL, NLP libraries, and data visualization tools. The position offers competitive benefits and a path to impact national security missions.