Remote Senior Data Scientist – Cyber Analytics & ML

ICF Olson; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework option

Client meetings at Arlington/Pensacola

Job summary

ICF Olson seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to support the development of cyber analytic capabilities for a large federal program. You will build ML/DL models, derive actionable insights, and automate scoring on massive data sets to understand cyber threats and defense strategies.

The role is telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or ICF facilities in the DC metro area.

Qualifications

• Active security clearance required as part of client contract.
• US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 12 years or Master’s degree with 10 years of experience in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence or related field.
• Position requires a minimum of 10 years of practical working experience in NLP, Machine Learning Models, Question Answering, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Distributional Semantics, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering.
• Strong experience using a variety of mathematical, statistical, data mining, and data analysis methods/tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform knowledge elicitation from customer subject matter experts and convert that to derived algorithms.
• Analyze large data sets to identify actionable insights with mathematical statistical rigor.
• Rigorously critique and correct intermediate results to improve the algorithmic outcomes.
• Design and deploy deep learning algorithms and predictive models.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
• Interpret and communicate results to non-technical customers.

Skills

NLP

Machine learning

Text mining

Information retrieval

Data science

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, Stats, Applied Math, Computational Linguistics, AI

Tools

Databricks Intelligence Platform

Python

R

SQL

JavaScript

Job description

ICF Olson seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to support the development of cyber analytic capabilities for a large federal program. You will build ML/DL models, derive actionable insights, and automate scoring on massive data sets to understand cyber threats and defense strategies.

The role is telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or ICF facilities in the DC metro area.