# Data Scientist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: McLean, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Data Scientist with an entrepreneur’s mindset to support a fast-paced and growing data science team working on projects critical to National Security.

**Responsibilities Include:**

- Build statistical and machine learning models, conducting natural language processing (NLP), and developing automated solutions for complex business challenges.

- Construct and execute complex database search queries across multiple databases using SQL and API interfaces.

- Perform web scraping and apply various techniques for processing unstructured data.

- Leverage automation and machine learning to manage data, predict scenarios, and make data-driven recommendations.

- Learn and leverage technologies including AWS and Git.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.

- BS degree and 8 – 12 years relevant technical experience or Master’s with 6 – 10 years of relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.

- Experience with Python is required.

- Social network analysis (SNA) experience

- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases and APIs for data extraction is required.

- Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning and natural language processing (NLP) is required. Familiarity with NLP libraries and tools (e.g., spaCy, Hugging Face, NLTK, or TensorFlow).

- Experience with frequentist statistics, probability, and predictive modeling, along with knowledge of computer science concepts, data architecture, and statistical methods.

- Proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib) is required.

The salary range for this position is $107,900.00 - $195,050.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Machine Learning
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Plotly
- Seaborn
- Matplotlib
- AWS
- Git
- Social Network Analysis (SNA)
- Frequentist Statistics
- Predictive Modeling

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