Data Scientist Senior - TS/SCI w/poly

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT); College Park (MD); On-site; USD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and wellness

401K with company match

Competitive pay and paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Data Scientist (AI/ML Engineer) to design, implement and secure production ML systems for classified intelligence missions in a secure environment.

The role focuses on hardened architectures, microservices, containerized deployments, model optimization, and integration with mission systems, ensuring RMF/compliance and secure CI/CD pipelines while enabling advanced AI capabilities and all-source intelligence production.

Qualifications

• Strong background in data science and ML for intelligence applications.
• Experience with secure environments and RMF/compliance.
• Ability to design and deploy AI/ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and secure production ML systems for classified environments.
• Conduct secure code and model handling, performance tuning, and automated CI/CD; coordinate with SSO/security.
• Design, develop, and evaluate leading-edge AI technologies and analytic methodologies for all-source analysis, workflows, and dissemination.
• Use LLMs, NLP, and ML to automate ontologies and semantic workflows; support entity extraction and summarization.
• Develop and refine semantic data-retrieval and reasoning over knowledge graphs using GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL.
• Evaluate AI, data-science, and analytic methods for risks, biases, and limitations; deliver enhancements to tools and workflows.
• Perform independent research; investigate technologies that enhance all-source intelligence analysis.
• Write R/Python scripts, apply SQL, merge datasets, perform statistical analysis, and apply data-mining algorithms.
• Maintain proficiency with TensorFlow/PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, GPU/HPC workflows, secure software practices.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Datasets

Machine Learning Methods

Education

Master’s degree with 12 years related experience or Bachelor’s degree with 17 years’ experience

Job description

Req ID: RQ230676

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Data Science and Data Engineering

Skills:

Analytical Thinking,Datasets,Machine Learning Methods

Experience:

17 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description

Program Overview

GDIT delivers critical all‑source intelligence on foreign military and civilian cyber actors, their supporting infrastructure, and the broader ecosystems in which these capabilities operate. This intelligence directly supports foundational military intelligence (FMI) requirements for the joint force and ensures alignment with the mission portfolios.

On this program, GDIT provides a broad range of analytic and mission‑enabling support to produce operationally relevant FMI and scientific and technical intelligence (S&TI) for cyberspace operations. Our support is not limited to analysis; we engage across the entire intelligence cycle planning, collection, processing, exploitation, production, and dissemination while also executing integrated mission management functions.

All support is focused on enhancing the customers’ ability to enable both defensive and offensive cyberspace operations.

Position Overview - Data Scientist (AI/ML Engineer)

The Data Scientist (AI/ML Engineer) designs, implements, and secures production ML systems for classified intelligence missions, including hardened architectures and microservices, containerized/clustered deployments, RMF/OPSEC compliance, model optimization for constrained environments, and integration with mission systems and sensors.

The engineer handles secure code and model practices, performance tuning, and automated secure build/deployment pipelines, coordinating with security/SSO personnel to prevent inadvertent disclosure during agile prototyping. The role advances AI capabilities by designing and evaluating new analytic methods, conducting independent research, and incorporating emerging technologies to enhance all‑source intelligence production, knowledge management, and analytic tradecraft.

The Data Scientist applies advanced statistical methods, builds semantic automation workflows, strengthens knowledge‑graph reasoning, improves entity extraction and summarization, and performs multi‑INT analytic augmentation via ML. The role supports tool and workflow modernization, scripts in R/Python/SQL, manages disparate data sources, evaluates AI/ML techniques for risks, biases, and limitations, and contributes incremental capability enhancements and analytic outputs on emerging military technologies worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and secure production ML systems for classified environments, including hardened architectures, microservices, containerized/clustered deployments, RMF/OPSEC compliance, and integration with mission systems.

• Conduct secure code and model handling, performance tuning, and automated secure CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins/GitLab); coordinate with SSO/security to prevent inadvertent disclosure.

• Design, develop, and evaluate leading‑edge AI technologies and new analytic methodologies for all‑source analysis, assessments, workflows, dissemination, and knowledge management, applying advanced statistical/mathematical techniques and large‑data multi‑INT analytics.

• Use LLMs, NLP, and ML to automate ontologies and semantic workflows; support automation of entity extraction, recognition, and summarization; and augment/automate all‑source analytic processes with AI/ML.

• Develop and refine semantic data‑retrieval and reasoning over knowledge graphs using GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL, and other query frameworks, ensuring semantic accuracy and interoperability.

• Evaluate AI, data‑science, and advanced analytic methods for risks, biases, and limitations; deliver incremental enhancements to analytic tools, capabilities, workflows, and methods.

• Perform continuous independent research across government, industry, and academia; investigate, prototype, and evaluate technologies that enhance all‑source intelligence analysis and brief senior leadership on mission applicability.

• Write R/Python scripts, apply SQL, manage and merge disparate datasets, perform statistical analysis, and apply data‑mining algorithms to support mission analytics.

• Maintain proficiency with TensorFlow/PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, GPU/HPC workflows, secure software‑development practices, and model‑optimization techniques; leverage prior ML and automated predictive‑analytics experience and a professional or graduate‑level data‑science certificate.

Education and Desired Experience

Master’s degree with 12 years related experience or Bachelor’s degree with 17 years’ experience.

Maintain or pursue preferred qualifications including Certified Kubernetes Administrator, cloud GovCloud (AWS/Azure Gov) experience, and RMF/security training.

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• competitive pay and paid time off

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The likely salary range for this position is $140,821 - $190,523. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total Rewards at GDIT

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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