Data Scientist

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs data analytics, specifically data clean-up, data processing, predictive modeling, chemometric statistical modeling and analysis, multivariate data analysis, machine learning, and/or data mining, as related to scientific data.
• Applies technical skills to plan and execute assigned project work including development of computational models, programming of detection algorithms, and machine learning.
• Maintains operational capabilities of computation assets as needed by project requirements.
• Leads meetings with company clients by preparing and presenting meeting materials in meetings.
• Appropriately annotates project developed computer code through comments and user manuals.
• Presents technical results through the drafting of technical reports.
• Presents experimental results and recommended actions at internal project meetings.
• Supports business development efforts as needed by drafting technical sections of proposals, providing proposal review, assessing levels of effort required to complete proposed work, and brainstorming technical solutions to client problems.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to plan sequence of experiments to answer complicated technical questions.
• Ability to lead group of co-workers in execution of a task.
• Software programming proficiency with Java, C, R, Python, and/or MATLAB.
• Working knowledge of statistics as it applies to scientific data.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Team player with a positive attitude.

Department of Homeland Security Suitability

Department of Defense Secret Clearance

Certificates And Licenses

None

Education/Experience

Incumbent professional should have a Ph.D. or master's degree in a physical science (preferably chemistry), statistics, or data science and significant experience in computer programming, computational modeling, or software development.

Supervisory Responsibilities

The incumbent professional may oversee junior level staff members performing tasks.

Working Conditions/ Equipment

The incumbent professional is expected to work and/or be available during regular business hours. He/she should also generally be available via e-mail or phone during non-business hours as needed to address critical issues or emergencies. He/she may be required to travel on behalf of the company up to 25%.