Data Scientist
McLean, VA
Full Time
Experienced
BT-388 – Data Scientist
Skill Level- Subject Matter Expert
Location: McLean, VA (fully on-site, no remote option)
**Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.**
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
- Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit-learn) or deep learning models.
- Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
- Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
- Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
- Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
- Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel and performance metrics.
- Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research.
- Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
Desired Skills:
- Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture
- Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
- Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
- Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.
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