Cognitive Performance Group (CPG) is seeking a Junior Data Scientist to apply science to improve and support decision-making and complex cognitive performance for individuals and teams, by conducting studies and co-developing products that model, measure, train, and support decision-making and cognitive performance in complex, time-pressured, high-risk, uncertain, and dynamic operating environments, solving novel problems for Warfighters with cutting-edge techniques and scientific rigor.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Experience building and managing data pipelines and databases
- Understanding of data modeling and performance optimization
- Experience developing relational databases.
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, Python, or other programming languages.
- Functional understanding of statistics and data analysis methods and tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage data pipelines using Python and SQL
- Construct agile, scalable database structures (e.g., star schema)
- Extract, transform, and load (ETL) raw data from diverse sources
- Contribute to near real-time data analysis and visualizations during field exercises
- Collaborate with cognitive scientists and technologists to support applied research on human-machine teaming
- Conceptualize solutions and lead a small team responsible for collecting qualitative and quantitative data from human operators
- Extracting data from system files, managing and reconciling data, and producing analytic visualizations of complex data sets in stride during training exercises and experimental field events.
Other
- Required travel: 25-50% (including international travel)
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Must possess an active security clearance.
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a discipline related to data visualization such as Modeling & Simulation, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Design Engineering, Business Technology, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, or Data Analytics; or an applied social science discipline such as Anthropology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Factors, Applied Cognition, or Experimental Psychology.
- Proven record of generating visual representations of complex quantitative and mixed methods data sets that convey meaning to military users.
