Data Scientist

About the role

We are seeking a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist to join our cross-functional product development teams. Our teams are building capabilities to identify, plan, and deliver effects in the information operations space, and aim to provide a complete end-to-end solution to customers wishing to detect, analyze, and respond to events in real time. We combine signal-rich proprietary data, novel AI-powered technology, and world-class expertise to deliver valuable insights to our US government and Fortune 50 clients.

Responsibilities

• Work with our product and customer support teams to turn abstract customer needs into concrete data science and/or engineering problems
• Experiment with and evaluate potential solutions to develop high quality prototypes
• Work with our engineering team to turn prototypes into scalable production-level software
• Work on agentic systems – designing prototypes, adding tools, evaluating effectiveness
• Be responsible for projects that span statistical and mathematical reasoning, business communications and leadership, and software development
• Contribute to the product roadmap both near-term tactical and longer-term strategic levels
• Experiment with a range of data science techniques to produce insight, including machine learning, deep learning, network analysis, sampling methodologies, text analytics in multiple languages and data visualization
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate the integrity of our data sampling and data collection strategies
• Work on ad-hoc analyses or build prototype tools to support our subject matter expert and customer support teams
• Participate in strategic discussions about the direction data science should be taking the company

Requirements

• Background
• Strong quantitative background with Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or similar field. Higher degrees preferred
• You have 3+ years experience in a Data Science role (or 1+ with a PhD), including 2+ years experience with Python programming language (Intermediate-level or higher)

Skills

• Experience with agentic and generative AI. Examples include
• Building agentic systems
• Building tools for agentic systems
• Evaluating agentic systems and/or generative AI solutions
• LangChain and/or LangGraph frameworks
• Model Context Protocol and Agent2Agent Protocol
• Prompt engineering
• Leveraging LLMs within analytical pipelines
• Training or fine-tuning LLMs
• A good understanding of statistics, including familiarity with statistical tests, distributions, and maximum likelihood estimators
• Previous experience with code version control
• Familiarity with software development processes and tools like the Agile methodology and Jira

Project Ownership

• You’ve scoped and planned data science projects and have the ability to creatively navigate technical limitations, iterate to solve hard questions, and learn quickly and independently.
• You are comfortable leading solutions for ambiguous tasks and complex problems, and are capable of independently providing solutions that fit within the business strategy.
• You propose pragmatic solutions that are as simple as possible and can be iterated upon
• You're comfortable working remotely on a distributed data science team with a diverse set of skills and life experiences, while embedded in a product team as owner of data science innovations to the product.

Communication

• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to both technical and non-technical customers. You have experience participating in meetings with a multitude of stakeholders (e.g., Product, Engineering, Operations, Management) and can communicate in a crisp manner. Mastery of English is required for this role, including communication at all levels of technical expertise.

Clearance

Must be eligible and willing to obtain a clearance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Retail retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Tuition assistance and professional development

Pay

The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements.

Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture, hair type and protective hair styles (e.g., braids, twists, locs and twists)), color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (40 and over), marital status, disability, genetic information, and protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.