NLP Data Scientist - TS/SCI Clearance, Tokenization & POS

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

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

Minimum of 3 weeks PTO

Company sponsored medical plan

Company paid dental and vision insurance

Life insurance and STD/LTD plans

Job summary

A leading engineering firm located in Fort Meade, MD is seeking a Data Scientist to develop advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for analyzing spoken and written language data. The role involves building and improving models for tokenization and linguistic annotation. Candidates should have a Master’s degree with relevant experience and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance. A strong proficiency in Python and NLP libraries is essential, along with excellent problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required.
• Experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques.
• Strong proficiency in Python and relevant NLP/ML libraries.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models for tokenization of language data.
• Design automated solutions for annotating language data.
• Evaluate and improve model performance against human-generated annotations.

Skills

Python

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Machine Learning

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Education

Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience

Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of relevant experience

Associate's Degree with 10 years relevant experience

Tools

NLTK

spaCy

Hugging Face

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

A leading engineering firm located in Fort Meade, MD is seeking a Data Scientist to develop advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for analyzing spoken and written language data. The role involves building and improving models for tokenization and linguistic annotation. Candidates should have a Master’s degree with relevant experience and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance. A strong proficiency in Python and NLP libraries is essential, along with excellent problem-solving skills.