• Data Scientist

    SAIC (Chantilly, VA)


    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.

     

    SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

     

    Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

    REQNUMBER: 2503842

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