Senior NLP Data Scientist — TS/SCI Clearance

Momentum Engineering, Inc.; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

11 paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Company sponsored medical plan

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

STD/LTD

Job summary

Momentum Engineering, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist to support an NLP project focused on automatically processing spoken and written language data.

The role requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph and involves developing tokenization and linguistic annotation capabilities while evaluating model performance against human annotations. The position handles processing of speech and text datasets, analyzes data, and reports on model accuracy.

Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 8 years, Associate's degree with 10 years.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing.
• Experience processing text and/or speech data.
• Understanding of tokenization and linguistic annotation concepts.
• Strong analytical and software-development skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop NLP solutions for spoken and written language data
• Develop automated approaches for accurate language tokenization
• Create automated solutions for annotating language data with parts-of-speech information
• Analyze speech and text datasets
• Improve existing NLP models and processing techniques
• Evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations
• Develop quantitative methods for measuring model accuracy and effectiveness
• Document model performance, analytical methods, and recommended improvements

Skills

NLP

Text & Speech Data

Tokenization

Linguistic Annotation

Software Development

Security Clearance TS/SCI

Analytical Skills

Education

Master's degree in related field

Bachelor's degree + 8 years experience

Associate's degree + 10 years experience

Job description

Momentum Engineering, Inc. is seeking a Data Scientist to support an NLP project focused on automatically processing spoken and written language data.

The role requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph and involves developing tokenization and linguistic annotation capabilities while evaluating model performance against human annotations. The position handles processing of speech and text datasets, analyzes data, and reports on model accuracy.