Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Belong. Connect. Grow. with K ! K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high‑end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

K  is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team in Dayton, OH. This position can be onsite or remote. K  solves the toughest problems for our clients by extracting insight from data, delivering greater decision confidence, and improving processes. Our analysts are involved in a wide range of activities that range from understanding and transforming data, applying state‑of‑the‑art analytic techniques, and driving business impact through insight visualization.

Our analysts are leveraged across a range of projects, such as artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, business process improvement, and application development. K  analysts collaborate with Operations Research Analysts, Software Development Professionals, Data Architects, and Subject Matter Experts.

• Execute analytical experiments methodically to help solve various problems and make a true impact across various domains and industries.
• Research and apply state‑of‑the‑art artificial intelligence methods and innovative statistical models.
• Identify relevant data sources and sets to mine for client business needs and collect large structured and unstructured datasets and variables.
• Process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Develop code for predictive/prescriptive models with applied machine learning and other modeling techniques.
• Clearly document and present methodology, assumptions, and findings to stakeholders.
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams to improve business outcomes.
• Deliver in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented work environment.
• Adapt quickly to changing needs across several core areas, including data wrangling, data exploration, data analysis, and data visualization.
• Articulate trade‑offs between analytic techniques, recommend a course of action to clients, and provide effective updates on project outcome uncertainty to leadership.
• Hands‑on experience performing analysis to solve problems.
• Discovering insights hidden in large data sets.
• Using a variety of advanced analysis methods, data tools, and models.
• Using/creating algorithms and/or running simulations.
• Testing the effectiveness of different courses of action.

• Location:
  
  Onsite or Remote
• Travel Requirements:
  Minimal
• Working Hours:
  
  Standard

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science or related field
• 5+ yrs experience in Data Science or Data analysis
• Proficiency in programming languages like Python or R
• Experience with AI frameworks like Tensor Flow or Py Torch
• Familiarity with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and Large Language Models (LLM)
• Developing data pipelines to support Analytics
• Applying advanced analytics and machine learning techniques
• Documenting and communicating results of analysis
• Familiarity with SQL and BI Tools (Tableau, Qlik etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Hands‑on experience with driving analytic insights and workflow automation.
• Must have the ability and motivation to self‑teach in order to stay current with leading best practices in analytics.
• Candidates must be able to tackle difficult problems, specifically working with artificial intelligence.
• Expected to have data wrangling skills.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance.

• Master’s degree in Data Science or related field
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