Data Scientist
Job ID: 2503842
Location: CHANTILLY, VA, United States
Date Posted: May 20, 2025
Category: Software
Subcategory: SW Engineer
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: On-Site
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Job Description
Description
SAIC’s Space & Intel Business Group, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking a Data Scientist to support developing tailored solutions to tackle unique global collection problems
This position is located in Northern Virginia and requires an active TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
Responsibilities include:
- Work to deploy, and maintain multiple, fast-turnaround capabilities used to perform various highly-visible and high-priority collection efforts.
- Strategically apply AI/ML to extract, format, and expose in indexed search tools relevant content such as raw text, multimedia (audio, image, video, document), tabular (CSV, Parquet, Avro) or nested (JSON, JSONL, XML), and other structured /unstructured data types. Data is expected to be of varying formats, schemas, and structures.
- Provide Data Engineering support to include cleaning, modeling, and formatting data of unknown formats.
- Move data between different cloud storage environments for critical requests.
- Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure capabilities and deliverables meet defined requirements and tradecraft needs.
- Create and maintain collection capabilities and deliverables within Amazon Web Services environment utilizing approved AWS services.
- Validate collected data to ensure it meets data format requirements.
- Maintain all source code in Customer’s GitHub repository.
- Document all source code, including how to execute the code.
- Perform operations and maintenance on the collection capabilities and deliverables to adapt to changes in collection target, technologies, data formats, and naming conventions.
Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
- 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 experience with:
- Python.
- GitHub.
- Geo-spatial software and programming packages and data formats.
- Creating and managing AWS resources, including provisioning EC2 instances, writing and deploying Lambda functions, creating, and writing to S3, and managing authorization appropriately across resources with IAM policies.
Desired Experience:
- Educational or practical experience in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) field.
- ECL experience.
Overview
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
