Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement)

Prescient Edge; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with performance bonuses

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Retirement plan with no vesting schedule

Career development opportunities

Job summary

A Veteran-Owned Small Business is seeking a Senior Computer Scientist for a role focused on OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement. The successful candidate will leverage expertise in AI, machine learning, and data mining to support government intelligence missions. Essential requirements include a Master's degree in a related field and a minimum of 12 years in relevant experience, with a TS/SCI clearance necessary for this position. Join this team and contribute to innovative solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of relevant experience, with some in the last 2 years.
• Experience with large and complex datasets.
• Ability to obtain TS/SCI with CI POLY clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and utilize machine learning algorithms for data analysis.
• Integrate and code algorithms to support government intelligence missions.
• Provide detailed feedback on OBI documentation submitted by owners.
• Collaborate on practices for responsible AI development.
• Design and execute protocols to evaluate AI performance.
• Creates documentation and training materials to educate stakeholders on the OBI process and its applications.

Skills

Mathematics

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Data Mining

Data Engineering

Data Warehousing

Data Protection

Statistical Analysis

Education

Master's Degree in a related field

Bachelor's Degree with 5 years of experience

Job description

Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement) - (2701)

Job Title

Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement)

Location

NCR, US (Primary)

Category

Job Type

Full-Time

Staff

Education

Master's Degree

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Job Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement) to support a federal government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement)

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Employs mathematics, statics, information science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, network science, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and/or other scientific techniques to correlate complex, technical findings into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products on trends of existing intelligence data to leverage other IC data sources.
• Develops and utilizes machine learning and data mining algorithms, including, but not limited to, Multiple Information Model Synthesis Architecture (MIMOSA) prediction algorithms based on open-source capabilities.
• Integrates or codes algorithms to support Government intelligence search and discovery missions.
• Makes best-practice recommendations on managing data within hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth constraints.
• Employs data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-source data analytics, wargaming, and strategy development.
• Employs exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.
• Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.

Specific OBI duties:

• Review and evaluate OBI documentation submitted by data and AA owners to ensure compliance with tradecraft standards and adherence to best practices in system development and deployment.
• Assess OBI documentation for completeness, accuracy, and thoroughness, and provide detailed feedback to data and AA owners and developers.
• Assist in maintaining a repository of OBI documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with team members to identify and implement practices för responsible Al development, including but not limited to bias detection, hallucination recognition, prompt fairness testing, adherence to analytic tradecraft standards and security policies.
• Provide consultation and guidance to AA owners, developers, and stakeholders on OBI governance and knowledge modeling, including best practices for system development, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with team members to develop and refine semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g., GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL).
• Collaborate with AA owners and developers to identify and address potential issues or gaps in OBI documentation.
• Develop and deliver training materials and workshops to educate AA owners, developers, and stakeholders on the OBI process and its application in Al system development. Assist analytic methodologists and AA owners in translating technical documentation into analytic tradecraft compliant language.
• Collaborate with team members to develop and refine exploratory efforts leveraging novel technologies (e.g., large language models, natural language processing, machine learning) to support and automate entity recognition and extraction, summarization, in accordance with analytic tradecraft standards, to enhance advanced analytic integration for OBI efforts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop, implement± and refine best practices for translating technical documentation into tradecraft compliant language.
• Review and edit translated documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness, and adherence to tradecraft standards.
• Collaborate with team members to develop and refine exploratory efforts leveraging novel technologies (e.g., large language models, natural language processing, machine learning) to automate ontologies and associated components to ensure semantic accuracy, relevance, and interoperability with existing knowledge modeling and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Design and execute Testing, Evaluation, Verification, and Validation (TEVV) protocols to evaluate the performance) robustness, and fairness of Al systems in all source analysis contexts.
• Collaborate with the Statistician/Mathematician to develop and apply statistical models and methods to analyze TEVV results and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and implement corrective actions to address TEVV findings and ensure Al system performance and robustness.
• Develop and implement Al system maintenance schedules to ensure continued system performance and robustness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize Al system improvements and updates.
• Develop and implement system updates and improvements to ensure compliance with tradecraft standards and best practices.
• Conduct technical assessments to ensure compliant use of Al systems for approved use cases in all source analysis.
• Evaluate Al system performance and adherence to tradecraft standards and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and maintain a repository of audit findings and recommendations to facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices across the organization.
• Possesses in-depth knowledge employing data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and/or other scientific techniques to design and develop automated or computer-assisted prototypes or software to derive insight.
• Serves as the primary POC for development expertise, working to streamline repetitive processes, access and integrate disparate data sets, and maintain internal tools for analytic production.
• Collaborate with team members to develop and refine exploratory efforts leveraging novel technologies (e.g., large language models, natural language processing, machine learning) to support and automate entity recognition and extraction, summarization, in accordance with analytic tradecraft standards, to enhance advanced analytic integration for OBI efforts.
• Provides advice on opportunities to advance DIA is analytic edge by creating minimum viable products (MVPs) that standardize and export DIA tradecraft.
• Creates documentation capturing the function and purpose of MVPs and support transition to internal or external teams that will scale the capability to enterprise applications.
• Possesses experience working with increasingly large and complex data, working and standing up distributed cluster for advanced analytics, and creating algorithms to clean, process, analyze, and visualize data.
• Makes recommendations to develop MVPs based on capabilities demonstrated in Tasks 2 through 4 and mission requirements.
• Requires TPOC and COR approval.
• Supports capability development by contributing, editing and storing code in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories.
• Creates, edits, and disseminates, in partnership with other vendors or software developers, capability update briefs capturing outstanding requirements, requested features, bugs planned development efforts, and priorities for prototypes or MVPs.
• Research and designs data, software, and other technical approaches to support all source intelligence analysis and data exploitation.
• Designs and solutions that deliver automation, machine augmentation, and tradecraft compliant capabilities.
• Delivers technical capabilities that enhance the ability for all source analysts to interrogate increasingly large and complex data sets.

Job Requirements

Desired experiences :

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Desired education:

• Master’s Degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education: or have a bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related Senior experience for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the master’s degree.

Security Clearance:

• Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY.

Location:

• NCR to include Maryland and Virginia.

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.