Remote Data Scientist II — AI & Health Analytics

Analytica; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Employer-paid healthcare

Professional development funding

401(k) match

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Analytica is seeking a Data Scientist II to support a defense health mission-critical program. The role involves developing analytics, ML, and AI solutions, and delivering data-driven insights within multidisciplinary teams.

The candidate will work across project workstreams to analyze complex data, build predictive/prescriptive models, and deliver actionable insights while maintaining client communications. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; master's preferred.
• 2–4 years of experience in data science, analytics, ML, or AI in applied projects.
• Strong Python and SQL skills for data prep, analytics, model development, testing, and deployment.
• Experience building and evaluating ML models with feature engineering, design, and evaluation.
• Familiarity with NLP, large language models, embeddings, RAG, and prompt engineering.
• Experience creating dashboards or visual analytics with Power BI/Tableau/Python.
• Experience integrating data/ML services into enterprise environments using APIs.
• Experience working in a Git-based team, agile processes, and code reviews.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills; clear status reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy analytics, ML, NLP, and AI solutions to advance client objectives.
• Develop and enhance generative AI components using LLMs, embeddings, vector DBs, and cloud AI services.
• Critically evaluate generated code and analyses, validate sources, test outputs, document decisions.
• Perform data acquisition, ETL, EDA, feature engineering, and validation with Python/SQL.
• Apply statistical methods, predictive modeling, ML, and time-series to healthcare, business, and operations.
• Develop, test, deploy, and monitor AI/ML components for reliability, scalability, and security.
• Create dashboards and visual analytics using Power BI/Tableau/Python as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Develop and troubleshoot APIs and data services; integrate with enterprise systems and cloud platforms.
• Contribute to Git workflows, Agile tickets, and team development practices.
• Produce documentation, presentations, and knowledge-transfer materials; contribute to research.

Skills

Python

SQL

NLP

ML

AI

Data Visualization

Time-series

APIs

Git

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Databricks

AWS Bedrock

Redshift

Job description

Analytica is seeking a Data Scientist II to support a defense health mission-critical program. The role involves developing analytics, ML, and AI solutions, and delivering data-driven insights within multidisciplinary teams.

The candidate will work across project workstreams to analyze complex data, build predictive/prescriptive models, and deliver actionable insights while maintaining client communications. U.S.