Leidos - Glen Echo, MD
posted 5 months ago
Leidos is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with TS/SCI clearance to join our dynamic team focused on advancing mission-critical big data analytics and predictive analytics. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering advanced data science capabilities that support national security objectives. Your work will involve swiftly producing and analyzing results, disseminating findings, and contributing to presentations that provide actionable intelligence insights. You will engage in projects that require designing, developing, and deploying data science and machine learning capabilities and products. This includes applying machine learning libraries such as SciKit Learn, Keras, TensorFlow, or PyTorch to develop and train machine learning models. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists, software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts. Together, you will design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform that produces and analyzes results, disseminates findings, and contributes to publications and presentations. You will work on small projects that analyze a variety of big data related to national security, cyber security, business intelligence, online social media, and human behavior. Your ability to support multiple simultaneous projects while taking open-ended or high-level guidance will be crucial, as you independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant and effectively communicate your findings to a non-technical audience. To excel in this position, you will need a mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer focus. You will identify novel sources of data across various fields to improve the performance of predictive algorithms and encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms. Your strong background in research design, exploratory analysis, quantitative methods, user interface application design, and experience with customer outreach and engagement will be essential for success in this role.