Data Scientist Top Secret/SCI w/Poly
Listed on 2026-10-15
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IT/Tech
Data Scientist, Data Analyst
Location: Laurel
About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.
The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.
The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
The Role
The candidate selected for this position will be a part of the DWP Customer Experience team supporting user interactions with the Content and Event Warehouses. They will work side by side with users to understand their mission questions and optimize workflows to use the warehouses efficiently. This team partners across Y3 to ensure the architecture works seamlessly for all users. They provide and promote capability training and tradecraft outreach throughout the extended enterprise.
Are you passionate about building cutting-edge solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments?
A data scientist will develop machine learning, data mining, statistical and graph-based algorithms to analyze and make sense of datasets; prototype or consider several algorithms and decide upon final model based on suitable performance metrics; build models or develop experiments to generate data when training or example datasets are unavailable; generate reports and visualizations that summarize datasets and provide data-driven insights to customers;
partner with subject matter experts to translate manual data analysis into automated analytics; implement prototype algorithms within production frameworks for integration into analyst workflows.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline (e.g., statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering or computer science) and five (5) years of experience analyzing datasets and developing analytics as well as five (5) years of experience programming with data analysis software such as R, Python, SAS, or MATLAB.
- An additional four (4) years of experience in software development, cloud development, analyzing datasets, or developing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics can be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
- A PhD from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline can be substituted for four (4) years of experience.
- Produce data visualizations that provide insight into dataset structure and meaning
- Work with subject matters experts (SMEs)…
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