Technical SETA SME - Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Guidehouse Inc.; Bethesda (MD); Presencial; USD 113.000 - 188.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Dev &

Skills Development & Certifications

Employee Referral Program

Mobility Stipend

Descripción de la vacante

Guidehouse is seeking a Technical SETA with deep NLP/LLM expertise to support a research program at a high security level in Bethesda, MD. You will serve as the Subject Matter Expert for AI-driven language processing technologies and work across meetings, workshops, and testing events.

Required TS/SCI with polygraph, a relevant Bachelor's degree, and 8+ years in physics, CS, or engineering. You will guide NLP pipelines, data architectures, and AI governance within mission environments.

Formación

• ACTIVE TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, CS or related engineering field.
• 8+ years in physics/math/CS or related engineering fields.
• Experience in systems engineering and data-intensive environments.
• Knowledge of AI/ML incl. NLP, LLMs.
• Experience with NLP methodologies and transformer architectures.
• Experience building/evaluating NLP pipelines for mission use.

Responsabilidades

• Provide SME support across the lifecycle of a research program.
• Attend meetings, workshops, conferences, and testing events as SME.
• Serve as NLP/LLM SME for text analytics initiatives.
• Develop/evaluate NLP pipelines including preprocessing and training.
• Collaborate on program plans, milestones, and schedules.

Conocimientos

TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

NLP & NLP pipelines

LLMs / Transformers

AI/ML knowledge

Text analytics

Data architectures

Project planning

Educación

Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields

Herramientas

Hugging Face

PyTorch

TensorFlow

SpaCy

Descripción del empleo

Job Family :

Data Science & Analysis (ESA)

Travel Required :

Up to 10%

Clearance Required :

Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph

What You Will Do :

The Technical SETA will provide support in the execution of the lifecycle of a research program from development, source selection, execution, closeout, and transition. The Technical SETA will be responsible for attending meetings, workshops, conferences, and testing events as the Subject Matter Expert.

In this role, the Technical SETA will serve as the Subject Matter Expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP), including large language models (LLMs), machine‑language understanding, text analytics, and AI‑driven language processing technologies.

What You Will Need :

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED TS/SCI Federal or DoD security clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electric, computer, systems, software)
• EIGHT (8) or more years of work experience in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electric, computer, systems, software).
• Experiences should include, but not be limited to: Systems engineering and integration experience in complex, data‑intensive environments
• Knowledge of AI/ML (computer vision, NLP, predictive analytics, LLMs)
• Demonstrated experience with NLP methodologies such as text classification, named entity recognition, topic modeling, information extraction, or transformer‑based architectures
• Experience developing or evaluating NLP pipelines, including text preprocessing, tokenization strategies, model training, fine‑tuning, and optimization for mission environments
• Understanding of data architectures and pipelines for large‑scale analytics/intelligence production
• Familiarity with AI governance, data quality, bias mitigation, and mission assurance in operational NLP/LLM deployments
• Experience creating program plans, work breakdown structures, and milestone schedules

What Would Be Nice To Have :

• Master's degree or PhD in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electric, computer, systems, software) with FOUR (4) or more years of work experience
• Experience in the Intelligence Community (IC), including requirements, CONOPS, and transition
• Experience managing a multi‑disciplinary R&D or T&E team
• Experience as a Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager
• Experience with NLP development tools or frameworks such as Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, or similar libraries
• Ability to proactively manage multiple, concurrent tasks
• Excellent writing, slide development, and editing skills, including the ability to develop succinct, comprehensive, and understandable documents using complex data from multiple sources for technical and non‑technical audiences
• Strong organizational, problem‑solving, and time‑management skills; detail oriented

The annual salary range for this position is $113,000.00-$188,000.00.

What We Offer :

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email at [e-mail] . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.