ME00573-Data Scientist 3

Job Summary

Seeking a Data Scientist to support the development of advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions focused on the automated processing and analysis of spoken and written language data.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and implement NLP models to automatically tokenize language data from both spoken and written sources
• Design and build automated solutions for annotating language data with parts-of-speech (POS) tagging and linguistic features
• Train, test, and validate machine learning models for language processing tasks
• Evaluate and improve model performance by benchmarking against human-generated annotations for speech and text data
• Process and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured language data
• Develop data pipelines to support ingestion, preprocessing, and transformation of linguistic datasets
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate NLP models into production systems
• Perform error analysis and model tuning to improve accuracy and robustness
• Document methodologies, model performance, and data processing workflows

Required Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph (MD Customer)
• Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of relevant experience, or Associate's Degree with 10 years of in-depth relevant experience that is clearly related to the position
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques
• Strong proficiency in Python and relevant NLP/ML libraries (e.g., NLTK, spaCy, Hugging Face, or similar)
• Experience developing models for tokenization, text processing, and linguistic annotation
• Experience working with speech and/or text data
• Understanding of model evaluation techniques, including comparison to ground truth or human-labeled data
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with part-of-speech tagging and linguistic modeling
• Experience working with multilingual or speech-based datasets
• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Experience deploying NLP models in production environments
• Knowledge of data pipelines and large-scale data processing

Pay

The pay range for this role is: 135,000 - 180,000 USD per year (Ft. Meade MD)