Data Scientist

Labor Category: Data Scientist

Position Title: Data Scientist

Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert

Salary: Up to $230,000 per year

Core

Hours:

9am to 4pm

Location: McLean, VA

• The Candidate shall conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
• The Candidate shall analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
• The Candidate shall preprocess or clean structured and unstructured Customer data, including text data.
• The Candidate shall design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
• The Candidate shall use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Customer’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
• The Candidate shall independently, or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad‑hoc reports to include data visualizations using the Customer’s templates.
• The Candidate shall stay current with the Customer’s enterprise metadata collection tools.
• The Candidate shall implement the Customer’s existing coordination process.
• The Candidate shall provide technical education to staff on an ad‑hoc basis.
• The Candidate shall provide subject matter expertise in NLP to support Customer’s 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, Tensorflow, 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 Github 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 LLMs 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 401k Plan – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary, ability to max out 401k 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 per week)
• Mutual of Omaha long‑term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00 per month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($)
• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4
  
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• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

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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.