The Red Gate Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in solving some of the nation's most critical challenges by uncovering tough questions, exploring complex datasets, and designing advanced algorithms that deliver clear, actionable insights.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including Python, NLP, and LLM implementation
- 3+ years of experience with data exploration, cleaning, analysis, visualization, or mining
- Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data (e.g., Kafka)
- Proven ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models in real-world, high-volume environments
- Strong grasp of infrastructure and systems concepts, particularly data pipelines and data lakes
- Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from preparation to deployment
- Experience collaborating with MLOps teams on deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of machine learning models for classification, extraction, summarization, and search
- Work with clients to frame problems, identify data sources, and develop analytic strategies
- Build end-to-end ML workflows, from data preparation and exploration to deployment and evaluation
- Manage large-scale, production-level systems processing millions of streaming documents per week
- Apply expertise in data cleaning, mining, analysis, and visualization to create clear, actionable results
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including MLOps and infrastructure engineers, to ensure robust deployment, monitoring, and retraining of models
- Mentor junior team members and guide best practices in data science methodology and implementation
Other
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to mentor junior team members
