Associate Data Scientist
MITRE · McLean, VA · 1 mo ago
Engineering$80k–$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if there is real specific content. Use for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "It is unlawful in Massachusetts..." etc? That's legal boilerplate, likely remove. Also "Commitment to Non-Discrimination" etc remove. Also "MITRE intends to maintain a website..." remove. Also "Benefits information may be found here." remove. Also copyright etc remove.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content.
Let's extract content:
Intro paragraph: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE’s Systems Performance and Evaluation Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains."
That's about the role / company. Could be "About the role" or "About MITRE". Use heading "About the role". Provide paragraph(s).
Job Description paragraph: "This is an opportunity for an Associate Data Scientist with an interest in advancing and applying innovative data science and analytical techniques to help solve some of our nation's most critical challenges. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates with motivation to join our technical workforce, expand their technical skills and capabilities, and grow our work supporting the development and deployment of nationally important solutions through Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Systems Architecture and Requirements Engineering, and System-of-Systems and Systems Thinking practices. As an Associate Data Scientist, you will leverage and grow your analytical, mathematical, data science, and systems engineering expertise to support the analysis, design, implementation, and integration of enterprise systems and systems-of-systems, as well as mission analysis for federal agencies."
That's also about role; could be part of About the role.
Then "Specific responsibilities may include:" followed by bullet list.
We need to put responsibilities under
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invented details. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "It is unlawful in Massachusetts..." etc? That's legal boilerplate, likely remove. Also "Commitment to Non-Discrimination" etc remove. Also "MITRE intends to maintain a website..." remove. Also "Benefits information may be found here." remove. Also copyright etc remove.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content.
Let's extract content:
Intro paragraph: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. MITRE’s Systems Performance and Evaluation Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains."
That's about the role / company. Could be "About the role" or "About MITRE". Use heading "About the role". Provide paragraph(s).
Job Description paragraph: "This is an opportunity for an Associate Data Scientist with an interest in advancing and applying innovative data science and analytical techniques to help solve some of our nation's most critical challenges. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates with motivation to join our technical workforce, expand their technical skills and capabilities, and grow our work supporting the development and deployment of nationally important solutions through Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Systems Architecture and Requirements Engineering, and System-of-Systems and Systems Thinking practices. As an Associate Data Scientist, you will leverage and grow your analytical, mathematical, data science, and systems engineering expertise to support the analysis, design, implementation, and integration of enterprise systems and systems-of-systems, as well as mission analysis for federal agencies."
That's also about role; could be part of About the role.
Then "Specific responsibilities may include:" followed by bullet list.
We need to put responsibilities under Responsibilities
with - items.
List items:
- Using your understanding of data science, systems and mission engineering, quantitative methods, and an awareness of sponsor needs to determine areas where MITRE can have an impact
- Applying modern methods and tools such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Mission Engineering, and Mathematical Modeling to assess capability needs, requirements, architectures, designs, performance constraints and gaps, proposed changes, and verification and test approaches
- Evaluating and comparing alternative architectures and approaches using qualitative and quantitative techniques; exploring large trade-spaces and analyzing trade-offs
- Identifying and developing metrics and analytical methods to measure and analyze relevant system and data properties, such as robustness, resiliency, interoperability, quality, and maintainability
- Supporting requirements management, interface management, and architecture change management processes
- Performing data analysis, modeling, and system design and development, including software development, systems modernization, and architecture
- Supporting multiple tasks across several government-sponsored projects in a small- to large-team environment
Now Basic Qualifications: list.
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
- Familiarity with programming languages and analytical tools such as Python and MATLAB
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Engineering (DE) concepts
- Experience with statistical analysis, data analysis, and modeling
- Interest in complex, multi-disciplinary data and analytical problems
- Willingness and ability to learn new tools and concepts in a variable environment of government sponsors
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
- This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.
We could treat Basic Qualifications as Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which sections to include. We have both basic qualifications and preferred qualifications. Could combine into Requirements (basic) and Qualifications (preferred) or Skills. Let's map:
- Requirements: Basic Qualifications (must-have)
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (nice-to-have)
- Skills: maybe list specific technical skills? Not explicitly separate; but we could include skills from qualifications. However we should not create thin sections. Perhaps we can combine Requirements and Qualifications into one "Requirements" section with subheadings? But instruction says use those headings only if real specific content. We have content for Requirements (basic) and Qualifications (preferred). So we can have both sections.
Skills: Not explicitly listed separate; we could omit Skills section.
Benefits: The posting mentions "competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." Also "Benefits information may be found here." but we removed that line. There's no specific benefits detail like health insurance, 401k, etc. So we should not create Benefits section because no specific content. The phrase "competitive benefits" is vague; but it's still a mention. However instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state "competitive benefits" which is a statement about benefits, albeit vague. Should we include Benefits section with that sentence? It says "supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." That's a statement about benefits. Could be considered specific enough? It's not detailed but it's a statement. The instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state benefits exist. So we could include Benefits section with that sentence. However we also have "meaningful career development" which is more about development. Might be okay.
Pay: The posting includes "Salary compensation range and midpoint: $80,000 - $100,000 - $120,000". That's specific pay info. So we must include Pay section.
Schedule: "This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site." Also "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". So schedule info: onsite, 3 days a week minimum. So we can include Schedule section.
Now we need to avoid duplication: The onsite requirement appears also in Basic Qualifications. We should not duplicate content. We can keep the onsite requirement in Schedule section and maybe remove from Qualifications? But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot remove it. However we can include it in both places? That would be duplication. The instruction says "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication, but we should avoid duplicated lines. It says "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove duplicated lines. So we need to decide where to place the onsite requirement: either in Requirements or Schedule, but not both. Since Schedule is about work schedule, it's appropriate there. We can keep it in Schedule and remove from Requirements (but then we lose that info from Requirements). However the requirement is also a qualification (must be eligible for clearance, etc). The onsite requirement is more about schedule than qualification. So we can move it to Schedule and omit from Requirements. That would preserve the info (still present) and avoid duplication.
Similarly, "Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance." That's a qualification; keep in Requirements.
Now "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None" and "This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret". That's also clearance info. Could be included in Requirements as well. But we already have clearance requirement. Might be redundant. We'll keep the essential: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Secret clearance, must be US citizen. The additional lines about requisition requiring clearance None and hired candidate must have or obtain Secret within one year is essentially same. We could keep one version. To avoid duplication, we can keep the clearer statement: "Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance." That's enough.
Now Preferred Qualifications list:
- Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance
- Advanced degree in related field of study
- Experience with multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation (physics-level, engineering-level and/or socio-technical-level)
- Experience with Digital Engineering integration through internship, research, or academic projects
We'll put under Qualifications.
Now Skills: Not explicitly separate; we could omit.
Now Benefits: we have "competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." Also earlier: "Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence." That's a statement about benefits and culture. We'll put under Benefits section.
Now About the role: we have introductory paragraphs about MITRE and the department. We'll combine into About the role.
Now Responsibilities: we have list.
Now Pay: we have salary range.
Now Schedule: we have onsite, minimum 3 days a week.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
Structure:
About the role
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Responsibilities
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Requirements
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Qualifications
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Benefits
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Pay
Salary compensation range: $80,000 - $100,000 - $120,000 (annual).
(maybe keep exact phrasing)
Schedule
Onsite work required; minimum of 3 days per week on-site.
We must ensure we don't include headings with empty content. All have content.
Now check for any other specific content: "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite" we captured.
Now check for any other specifics: "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None" we omitted as duplication. "This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret" also omitted.
Now check for any other specifics: "MITRE’s Systems Performance and Evaluation Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains." That's part of About the role.
Now check for any
About the role
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Responsibilities
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Requirements
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Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
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Pay
Salary compensation range: $80,000 - $100,000 - $120,000 (annual).
(maybe keep exact phrasing)Schedule
Onsite work required; minimum of 3 days per week on-site.
We must ensure we don't include headings with empty content. All have content. Now check for any other specific content: "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite" we captured. Now check for any other specifics: "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None" we omitted as duplication. "This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret" also omitted. Now check for any other specifics: "MITRE’s Systems Performance and Evaluation Department is charged to solve some of our nation's most critical challenges in delivering services to citizens throughout defense and intelligence, aviation, homeland security, the judiciary, healthcare, and cybersecurity domains." That's part of About the role. Now check for any