Data Scientist, Sustainment Modeling & Simulation

Schedule : Full Time

Job Description :AVNIK has an opportunity for a Data Scientist or Data Analyst to provide sustainment engineering analysis using USG Modeling & Simulation (M&S) tools for DEVCOM AvMC. BS+5

Yrs of Experience or MS+3

Yrs of Experience.

At AVNIK, we're different! Quality of life is non-negotiable. We work smart and have a blast doing it. We hire experts and have superb benefits. As a member of our engineering team, you'll be challenged with conducting sustainment analysis for Army Aviation and Missile systems
. You'll use your interpersonal skills to develop lasting relationships with internal and external organizations and stakeholders. Come thrive in a fast-paced environment while learning and growing in data science, modeling and simulation, and sustainment engineering.

The candidate will join an engineering team supporting logistics, sustainment, and procurement analysis
. The role requires identifying, researching, and analyzing data sources and databases to define and extract critical information for engineering analysis. The candidate will work directly with Government personnel at AvMC, clearly express ideas and concepts, and perform as part of multi-disciplinary teams, IPTs, and Working Groups.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with customers to define M&S requirements
• Develop software pipelines to manage M&S environment
• Provide charts, graphs, data analysis and technical/engineering results to leadership and customers
• Prepare and present briefings on analysis, current tasks, schedules, and goals
• Provide technical analysis on Army platform logistics and sustainment key performance metrics
• Provide input to team on discussion of technical issues, tasks, briefings, goals, potential funding, etc.
• Resolve technical M&S issues through debugging, research, and investigation
• Manage workload across multiple projects/tasks and meet delivery schedules
• Professional communication skills demonstrated on a daily basis

Education & Citizenship Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science
, Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering (Aerospace, Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, etc.),
Applied Mathematics
, Physics
, or related technical field is required and 5+ years of experience. MS degree may substitute for 2 yrs of experience. Additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree in accordance with the applicable contract labor category. Advanced degree is a plus.
Candidate must be a US Citizen
.

Required Skills:

• Advanced software development skills (e.g.,
  Python
  ) and experience with version control (
  Git
  ) in a team environment
• Experience working with databases using SQL queries
• Familiarization with Statistical Methods, Analysis and theory (
  Linear Regression, Confidence Intervals, Probability Distributions
  )
• Working knowledge of M&S theory (Discrete Event Simulation, Stochastic, Deterministic, Monte Carlo, Heuristic, etc.)
• Advanced skills with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to clean and parse large and complex data sets
• Experience writing technical reports and developing customer briefings
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills; ability to clearly communicate in discussions and written documents, and to deliver regular updates and feedback clearly and tactfully is essential.
• Must hold an Interim SECRET clearance at start and be able to obtain and maintain a SECRET security clearance

Desired

Skills:

• Experience applying NLP (natural language processing) (e.g., spaCy, named entity recognition) or LLM (large language model) applications to unstructured text
• Working knowledge of ML (machine learning) methods (regression, classification, neural networks) using…