Senior Data Scientist — Mission Analytics (On‑Site)

Leidos; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is actively interviewing for a Data Scientist to join our team in Springfield, VA. The Senior role leads end-to-end data science solutions for government missions, combining statistical modeling, ML/AI, data exploitation, and analytic tradecraft to deliver impactful insights in secure environments.

Responsibilities include designing models, developing analytics workflows, and collaborating with mission operators, engineers, and government stakeholders to ensure analytic validity and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 12–15 years of relevant professional experience in data science or advanced analytics.
• Production-grade analytic or ML solutions in government, defense, or regulated environments.
• Strong Python, R, SQL and statistical inference knowledge.
• Ability to work in secure, on-site government environments and communicate with diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment, and optimization of advanced data science solutions for mission applications.
• Develop and validate ML models for classification, regression, clustering, anomaly detection, and recommendation.
• Architect end-to-end analytic workflows: ingestion, feature engineering, training, testing, deployment, monitoring.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Predictive analytics

Data mining

Feature engineering

Data wrangling

Python

R

SQL

Visualization

Model deployment

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or related field

Job description

Leidos is actively interviewing for a Data Scientist to join our team in Springfield, VA. The Senior role leads end-to-end data science solutions for government missions, combining statistical modeling, ML/AI, data exploitation, and analytic tradecraft to deliver impactful insights in secure environments.

Responsibilities include designing models, developing analytics workflows, and collaborating with mission operators, engineers, and government stakeholders to ensure analytic validity and