Data Scientist

Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to be part of a creative internal team to provide data science expertise supporting a growing and diverse Sponsor mission set.  The candidate will bring knowledge of data analytics along with development skills to create methodologies, tools, scripts, and analytics to automate and enhance analytical processes to bring additional insights to Targeters from large complex datasets.  The position requires a creative thinker who is able to rapidly learn the principles of scientific and technical fields in order to apply them in novel ways to the Sponsor’s problem sets.  The team receives diverse tasking which could include leveraging existing APIs to data sources, scraping website HTML files, building locally run Python/Flask applications, applying and training machine learning models, performing optical character recognition or object detection from images/video, and/or providing ETL support for local applications and solutions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, science, engineering, or a related field; OR a bachelor’s degree and six years of relevant experience.
• Experience with modern techniques in artificial intelligence (AI), data science, machine learning (ML), or statistics.
• Demonstrate high level of initiative, creative problem-solving, and critical thinking.
• Experience working with subject matter experts to frame analytic questions and determine scope.
• Ability to develop functional code from documented technical concepts.
• Experience in seven (7) or more of the following areas:
• Adapting and implementing supervised and unsupervised machine learning models for a variety of problem sets.
• Four (4) years’ experience writing structured code, and a minimum of one year experience writing original Python code.
• Four (4) years’ experience developing code in Windows and Linux environments.
• Two (2) or more years’ experience leveraging cloud infrastructure and writing code for applications in cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Four (4) years’ experience working with relational and non-relational data structures.
• Four (4) years’ experience programmatically accessing web services via APIs.
• Writing SQL queries, including extracting data across multiple data sets.
• Two (2) years’ experience writing original code in web development languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, AJAX, Jinja, Flask, and CSS.
• Designing and implementing lightweight graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for analytic applications.
• Writing code in a distributed processing ecosystem, such as utilizing Spark, PySpark, Scala, Hadoop, MapReduce, etc.
• Experience working in an environment that responds flexibly to evolving customer requirements.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in mathematics, science, engineering or a related field.
• Four years’ experience in the intelligence community (IC)
• Experience creating robust prototype applications using well-structured, maintainable code that can be deployed to multiple users.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize highly mathematical academic papers from a variety of scientific fields into functional code.
• Four years’ experience writing object-oriented code.
• Experience with graph theory, information theory, computational geometry, or other fields of mathematics with demonstrated applications to intelligence work.

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator driving our nation's technology transformation. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in engineering, digital, artificial intelligence and mission solutions. Using our expertise and understanding of existing and emerging technologies, we integrate the best components from our own portfolio and our partner ecosystem to deliver innovative, effective and efficient solutions that are critical to achieving our customers' missions.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.9 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.