ML & Predictive Analytics Scientist — Onsite, TS Clearance

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 156,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement and Savings Plan

Health insurance

Dental and vision coverage

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Senior Principal Data Scientist to support the Product Support Analytics and Innovation team onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California. This role focuses on building core data logic, ML tools, and scalable data solutions, requiring TS clearance eligibility and strong coding skills.

You will collaborate with software engineers, analysts, and other data scientists; design custom data science workflows; and contribute to tests, documentation, and best practices in CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM with 8+ years of experience, or Master in STEM with 6 years, or PhD with 4 years.
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
• Recent experience in software development and/or data engineering.
• Strong programming in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git, Docker).
• Ability to obtain and maintain US Government Top Secret clearance and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers, analysts, and data scientists to deliver robust, integrated solutions.
• Architect and develop custom, maintainable data science solutions from the ground up.
• Write and maintain tests and documentation for data architecture and workflows.
• Champion software engineering best practices in the data domain, including CI/CD and documentation.
• Tune and optimize complex algorithms within on-premise infrastructure.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Python

SQL

CI/CD

Git

Docker

Problem solving

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master in STEM / Data Science

PhD in STEM

Tools

Git

Docker

SQLAlchemy

NumPy

Pandas

SciKit-Learn

PyTorch

C/C++

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Senior Principal Data Scientist to support the Product Support Analytics and Innovation team onsite in Rancho Bernardo, California. This role focuses on building core data logic, ML tools, and scalable data solutions, requiring TS clearance eligibility and strong coding skills.

You will collaborate with software engineers, analysts, and other data scientists; design custom data science workflows; and contribute to tests, documentation, and best practices in CI/CD