Senior Data Scientist Clearance-Driven Optimization(Remote)

LMI Government Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting seeks a Data Scientist – SME to lead prescriptive analytics within the Army portfolio, designing optimization models that set safety stock, resupply quantities, and balance risk and cost in supply chains.

You will work with logisticians, ammunition SMEs, and data engineers to operationalize models in Army Vantage and related environments, delivering production-grade solutions for government missions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in operations research, industrial engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, or related quantitative field; masters or PhD.
• 7+ years of experience in advanced analytics, operations research, or data science, with direct responsibility for optimization model design and deployment.
• Demonstrated expertise in linear and mixed-integer optimization, stochastic optimization, and/or robust optimization.
• Proven experience translating complex mission and business objectives into formal optimization formulations and delivering production-caliber solutions.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (data engineers, logisticians, software developers, and mission owners) in an Agile environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience briefing senior leaders and explaining trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
• Active SECRET clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Continue to improve processes: recommend ideal resupply quantities by installation and ammunition type.
• Align regional inventory to demand, reduce excess shipments and storage waste, and safeguard against stock-outs.
• Advance analytics toward prescriptive analytics, ensuring models are operationally actionable.
• Formulate, implement, and tune linear, mixed-integer, stochastic, and multi-objective optimization models considering demand forecasts, depot stock, costs, and capacity.
• Collaborate with data engineers to embed optimization models into applications and Vantage workflows.
• Design and implement model performance metrics and KPIs and monitor impact in near real time.
• Lead experimentation, scenario analysis, and sensitivity studies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to journeyman data scientists.
• Support briefings to senior Army leadership and stakeholders.

Skills

Linear optimization

Mixed-integer optimization

Stochastic optimization

Robust optimization

Pyomo

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

ML-driven demand forecasts

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's or PhD

Tools

Pyomo

Gurobi

CPLEX

OR-Tools

Army Vantage

Job description

LMI Government Consulting seeks a Data Scientist – SME to lead prescriptive analytics within the Army portfolio, designing optimization models that set safety stock, resupply quantities, and balance risk and cost in supply chains.

You will work with logisticians, ammunition SMEs, and data engineers to operationalize models in Army Vantage and related environments, delivering production-grade solutions for government missions.