Data Scientist

Position Overview

Title:

Data Scientist

Level: Level 2 – Expert

Salary:
Up to $ per year

Location:

McLean VA

Clearance:
Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph

• Conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
• Analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
• Preprocess or clean structured and unstructured customer data, including text data.
• Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
• Use Structured Query Language (SQL) in the customer’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
• Independently or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports, including data visualizations using the customer’s templates.
• Stay current with the customer’s enterprise metadata collection tools.
• Implement the customer’s existing coordination process.
• Provide technical education to staff on an ad‑hoc basis.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise in NLP to support customer initiatives.

• Developmental (0‑2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3‑5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6‑10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11‑15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre‑processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensor Flow, or Keras.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the Hugging Face Transformers library and hub.
• Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit‑learn) or deep learning models.
• Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder‑decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
• Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Git Hub and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
• Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
• Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research. Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.

• Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web‑based APIs and relational databases.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with front‑end web development frameworks such as Flask.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
• Demonstrated experience tuning large language models on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.

• Outstanding Salaries

• Full Vanguard 401(k) Plan – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee salary; ability to max out 401(k) savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50).
• Employees receive B4
  
  Corp phantom stock each year (2‑year vesting period).

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short‑term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long‑term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($)

• Refer a friend or coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4
  
  Corp.

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

B4

Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin.