National Security Data Scientist (NLP/ML)

Leidos; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with a 6% company match and vest

Flexible Schedules

Discounted Stock Purchase Plans

Technical Upskilling

Education and Training Support

Parental Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos in McLean, VA is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA). You will build statistical and machine learning models, perform NLP, and develop automated data solutions for national security critical projects.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph, strong Python, SQL, and NLP experience, plus hands-on work with AWS, APIs, and data visualization tools. Join a fast-paced team supporting security missions with cutting-edge analytics.

Qualifications

• Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Python proficiency required.
• Experience with Social Network Analysis (SNA).
• Strong SQL skills and API data extraction.
• NLP experience with libraries such as spaCy, Hugging Face, NLTK, or TensorFlow.
• Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning; statistical methods.
• Proficiency with data visualization tools (Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib).

Responsibilities

• Build statistical and machine learning models, including NLP, for complex national security challenges.
• Construct and run complex SQL queries across databases and APIs.
• Perform web scraping and process unstructured data.
• Leverage automation and ML to manage data, predict scenarios, and drive recommendations.
• Learn and apply AWS and Git technologies.

Skills

Python

SNA

SQL

NLP

Supervised learning

Unsupervised learning

Statistics

Data Visualization

Education

BS/MS in a technical field

Tools

AWS

Git

Job description

Leidos in McLean, VA is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA). You will build statistical and machine learning models, perform NLP, and develop automated data solutions for national security critical projects.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph, strong Python, SQL, and NLP experience, plus hands-on work with AWS, APIs, and data visualization tools. Join a fast-paced team supporting security missions with cutting-edge analytics.