Data Scientist- TS/SCI

Xcelerate Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a Data Scientist to support programs advancing ML, NLP, and data fusion in mission-focused analytics. Bethesda, MD-based role requiring TS/SCI with polygraph. You will design and optimize a Data Science platform, work on diverse big data projects, and communicate results to non-technical stakeholders.

Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team of data scientists, developers, and analysts to deploy predictive algorithms and analytics tools in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in a quantitative or analytical field with 2+ years of experience; or Master’s degree.
• Active TS and ability to obtain TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Experience in data science, analytics or quantitative intelligence analysis.
• Proficiency in Python scripting language.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform to produce and analyze results.
• Work on big data projects across national security, cyber security, business intelligence, and social media.
• Deliver findings to non-technical audiences and publish presentations.

Skills

Python

Streamlit

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Elastic Stack

SQL

Git

Data science

Education

B.S. degree in quantitative field

Master’s degree or equivalent

Certificate-based advanced training

Tools

Streamlit

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Neo4j

AWS

Job description

Job Description

Data Scientist – TS/SCI

Xcelerate Solutions is currently seeking a Data Scientist. The Data Scientist will support ongoing and future programs to advance the state of the art in research and advanced machine learning, natural language processing, and data fusion applications in the areas of mission-focused big data analytics. Come join our award-winning organization and work with some of the most talented and brightest minds in the GovCon industry.

Location:

Bethesda, MD

Security Clearance:

TS/SCI

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists, as well as a larger team of software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts to design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform to produce and analyze results, disseminate findings, and contribute to publications and presentations.
• Work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data covering national security, cyber security, business intelligence, online social media, human behavior and more.
• Support multiple simultaneous projects and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant, and package and deliver the findings to a non-technical audience.
• Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel sources of data across a range of fields, to improve the performance of predictive algorithms, and to encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.
• Leverage your strong background in research design,exploratoryanalysis, quantitative methods, user interface application design, and experience with customer outreach and engagement

Minimum Requirement:

• B.S. Degree in a quantitative or analytical field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or Computational Social Science with 2+ years of experience; orMaster’sdegree or equivalent graduate degree including certificate-based advanced training courses with less than 2 years of experience.
• Active TS and ability to obtain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Experience in data science, analytics or quantitative intelligence analysis, and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages such as Python
• Deployment of data science applications (e.g.Streamlit) using Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift.
• Experience with information retrieval and search, e.g. Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch and Kibana) and/or Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Experience working with a hybrid team ofanalyst, engineers, and developers to conduct research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use algorithms and analytical platforms
• Previousexperienceperforming Data Science or Research in data analytics or big data, i.e. data that won’t fit in memory.
• Track record of active learning and creative problem solving
• Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.
• Familiarity using git or other version control technologies
• Our Data Scientists have opportunities toowntheir work and complete tasks on time with little/no supervision

Preferred Qualification:

• A significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.
• Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: forensic media (i.e. DOMEX); open source, publicly available information (PAI); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT); or cybersecurity and cyber forensics
• Experience with Knowledge Graphs and KG tech such as neo4j or graph ML.
• Experience developing predictive algorithms, image classifiers, object detectors, and others.
• Familiarity with social network analysis, supply chain analysis, forensic accounting, pattern of life, natural language processing, social media analysis, classification algorithms, and/or image processing.
• Experience blending analytical methodologies and leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in an unconventional manner.
• Experience with an on-prem, air gapped environment and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS