NLP Data Scientist - Top Secret/SCI Clearance Required

Momentum Engineering; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Company sponsored medical plan

Paid dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Fort Meade, MD is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to develop advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for processing and analyzing language data. The role demands expertise in building and improving models for tokenization and linguistic feature annotation, along with a strong background in machine learning and Python. Candidates must hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance. The position offers a competitive salary and a benefits package including PTO and medical plans.

Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph.
• Master’s degree with 6 years of experience or equivalent qualifications.
• Strong proficiency in Python and relevant NLP/ML libraries.
• Experience developing models for tokenization, text processing, and linguistic annotation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models for language data.
• Design automated solutions for annotating language data.
• Train and validate machine learning models.
• Evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations.

Skills

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Python

Machine Learning

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Associate’s Degree

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

A leading engineering firm in Fort Meade, MD is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to develop advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for processing and analyzing language data. The role demands expertise in building and improving models for tokenization and linguistic feature annotation, along with a strong background in machine learning and Python. Candidates must hold an active Top Secret/SCI clearance. The position offers a competitive salary and a benefits package including PTO and medical plans.