Data Scientist
SAIC · McLean, VA · 3 days ago
Engineering$200k–$240k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with data scientist and technical team to implement requirements.
- Conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing (NLP).
- Analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
- Preprocess or clean structured and unstructured data, including text data.
- Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
- Use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Sponsor’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
- Author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualization.
- Stay current with enterprise metadata collection tools.
- Provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis.
- Provide subject matter expertise in natural language processing (NLP).
Qualifications
- Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more 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 HuggingFace 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.
- Developed practical approaches for measuring performance.
- Aided in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
- Analyzed information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
Desired Skills
- Experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
- 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.
Target Salary Range
$200,001 - $240,000.