Senior Data Scientist & Engineer – National Security

Talentify; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Career development

Job summary

MITRE in McLean, VA is seeking a hybrid Data Scientist/Data Engineer to apply advanced analytics, ML, and AI across national security, healthcare, and transportation domains.

The role requires strong CS, mathematics, and software engineering foundations plus hands-on data systems design and end-to-end analytics deployment. On-site work 3 days per week; competitive benefits and career development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related field with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on proficiency with advanced Data Science techniques, including Machine Learning, anomaly detection, statistical analysis, and/or analysis of very large datasets.
• Computer programming skills (e.g., Python, R, C/C++, Java, Scala, Julia, Rust, MATLAB).
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. US Citizen required.
• Minimum of 3 days per week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Lead data-driven initiatives across data modeling, processing, and infrastructure engineering.
• Apply analytics, ML, and AI to mission problems and solutions.
• Collaborate across data lifecycle stages and stay current with research trends.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Statistical Analysis

Data Visualization

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Applied Mathematics/Data Science

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Airflow

Dagster

NiFi

Kafka

Job description

MITRE in McLean, VA is seeking a hybrid Data Scientist/Data Engineer to apply advanced analytics, ML, and AI across national security, healthcare, and transportation domains.

The role requires strong CS, mathematics, and software engineering foundations plus hands-on data systems design and end-to-end analytics deployment. On-site work 3 days per week; competitive benefits and career development.