Junior Data Scientist — ML, NLP & Data Pipelines

altamiracorps; Fort Bragg (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Altamira Technologies seeks a Junior Data Scientist in Fort Bragg, NC to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines, and lead ML projects using cloud-native platforms. The role requires interpreting complex datasets, applying advanced methods, and communicating results to stakeholders.

The candidate will collaborate with data engineers, leverage tools like Spark, Hadoop, Python, and R, and contribute to data mining, NLP, and forecasting initiatives in a defense and national security context.

Qualifications

• Combination of data analyst and data engineer skills.
• Proficient with distributed SQL and data queries.
• Experience with cloud-native ML platforms and ML projects.
• Strong programming in Python and R.
• Ability to communicate results to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with data mining, NLP, and ML techniques.

Responsibilities

• Interpret and analyze data using statistical techniques.
• Coordinate research and analytic activities across data points and clean data.
• Experiment and provide solutions to data challenges.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to build Data environments.
• Apply scientific methods, statistics, and algorithms to identify problems.
• Develop predictive and prescriptive modeling, NLP, and forecasting methods.
• Design processes to manipulate and analyze large datasets across systems.
• Use Spark/Hadoop for large-scale data processing; create visualizations in Tableau/Power BI.
• Program in R/Python (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas).
• Utilize cloud-based platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, IBM Cloud Pak.

Skills

Programming

Statistics

Data analysis

Machine learning

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Master’s degree preferred in OR/IE/Math/CS/Statistics

SECRET/Security clearance (preferred)

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Tableau

Power BI

Databricks

Python

R

SQL

Job description

Altamira Technologies seeks a Junior Data Scientist in Fort Bragg, NC to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines, and lead ML projects using cloud-native platforms. The role requires interpreting complex datasets, applying advanced methods, and communicating results to stakeholders.

The candidate will collaborate with data engineers, leverage tools like Spark, Hadoop, Python, and R, and contribute to data mining, NLP, and forecasting initiatives in a defense and national security context.