The Mission Solutions Business Area at Leidos is looking to solve the problem of reverse engineering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) related installations, and the Data Scientist role is critical to supporting this effort.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Python
- Experience working with data manipulation, analytic/business insight tools, and data visualization experience
- Experience constructing and performing complex database search queries
- Experience/knowledge of computer science concepts, data architecture, and experience/knowledge of statistics
- Demonstrated experience using statistical and machine learning techniques including supervised and unsupervised learning and natural language processing
- Experience/familiarity with frequentist statistics and probability including predicative modeling
- Experience with SQL and API interfaces
Responsibilities
- Build statistical models, test hypotheses, interpret, summarize, visualize, and succinctly report on data findings
- Perform research on various data sources, to include unstructured data using quantitative and qualitative content analytics
- Construct and perform complex database search queries in multiple databases using SQL and API interfaces
- Perform web scraping and apply various techniques for processing unstructured data
- Contribute to building new analytical tools and packages across the enterprise
- Learn and leverage emerging technologies including AWS and Git
- Leverage automation and machine learning to manage data, predict scenarios and make recommendations
Other
- US Citizenship is required
- Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI, or a Top Secret clearance with a current SSBI, and be eligible to obtain a TS/SCI w/ poly level clearance
- BS degree and >6 years of prior relevant experience or MS with >4 years of prior relevant experience
- Must have a Data Science, Operations Research or related degree
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to successfully brief and interact with personnel at all levels of experience
