Lead Data Scientist

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MITRE’s Systems Engineering Analytics department is looking for qualified applicants to bring their advanced data science, machine learning, AI, and data engineering skills to bear on solving problems of critical national importance. MITRE’s diverse work program provides opportunities to apply your expertise and creative thinking in challenging domains such as national security, intelligence, transportation, and healthcare. Employees may also participate in MITRE’s internal research and development program, which provides funding for innovative applied research that addresses our sponsors’ hardest problems.

Roles & Responsibilities :

The successful candidate for this position is a Data Scientist who combines strong foundations in statistical analysis, machine learning, AI, and software development with hands-on experience preparing and analyzing complex data, developing and evaluating models, and delivering analytic capabilities to solve mission problems. Our organization values innovation and believes that keeping up with the latest research and technologies is essential.

The Data Scientist will help our government sponsors develop and evaluate technical approaches and implementation plans supporting the adoption of data-driven capabilities across the national security community. The Data Scientist will contribute to data and analytics strategies, assess the suitability of data, models, and supporting architectures for mission applications, and provide evidence-based decision support.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted technical advisor and may act as a technical point of contact for government sponsors within assigned projects. The candidate will be expected to develop clear, concise, and actionable deliverables, communicate complex technical concepts and analytic findings to decision makers, and align data science and AI capabilities with mission needs. The candidate will also lead technical efforts, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with engineering teams to transition analytical approaches into operational capabilities.

The candidate should have hands-on experience in many of the areas specified below:

Translation of complex mission needs into analytical questions, measurable objectives, and implementable technical approaches, including application of statistical inference, experimental design, causal inference, or simulation to support defensible recommendations.

Development and evaluation of statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models for applications such as prediction, classification, forecasting, anomaly detection, natural language processing, computer vision, graph analytics, or multimodal analysis.

Preparation, integration, and feature engineering of large, heterogeneous datasets, including entity resolution, schema harmonization, and approaches for addressing missing data, class imbalance, noisy labels, and limited…