# Senior Data Scientist

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Rockville, MD
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Leidos' team supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency's Enterprise Digital Modernization Accelerator initiative. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced analytics and AI/ML solutions for mission-critical applications.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced analytics and AI/ML solutions for mission-critical applications.

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, and developers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, production-ready algorithms and platforms.

- Apply cutting-edge techniques in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, entity resolution, graph analytics, explainable AI, and operational analytics.

- Work with diverse data types (structured, unstructured, open source, digital media) and leverage modern tools such as Python, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LLM frameworks, and geospatial analytics platforms.

- Contribute to the integration of AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment.

- Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including remote and on-site work in the National Capital Region (Rockville, MD and/or Alexandria, VA).

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent graduate degree in a quantitative or analytical field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computational Social Science, etc.).

- 12+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, developing analytics and AI/ML solutions (10+ years with a Master’s).

- Active Top Secret clearance and eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.

- Proficiency in Python and at least one other scripting language.

- Demonstrated experience collaborating with hybrid teams to research, build, and deploy complex, user-friendly analytical platforms.

- Track record of creative problem solving, active learning, and mission-focused outcomes.

- Familiarity with version control tools (git, svn, JIRA) and deployment technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers.

- Expertise with knowledge graphs (neo4j, graph ML), predictive algorithms, image classifiers, object detectors, information retrieval, SQL, Elastic Stack.

- Experience deploying data science applications (e.g., Streamlit) and working with distributed systems (Hadoop, Ray, Spark).

- Familiarity with Azure/C2S, hardware platforms (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), and advanced analytical methodologies (social network analysis, supply chain analysis, NLP, classification algorithms, image processing).

- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal LLMs, Langchain, vLLM, llama.cpp.

Benefits:

- Flexible work arrangements, including remote and on-site work

Salary: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- statistical analysis
- predictive analytics
- entity resolution
- graph analytics
- explainable AI
- operational analytics
- geospatial analytics
- DevSecOps
- data engineering
- platform engineering
- cybersecurity
- observability

### Nice to have
- knowledge graphs
- neo4j
- graph ML
- predictive algorithms
- image classifiers
- object detectors
- information retrieval
- SQL
- Elastic Stack
- Streamlit
- distributed systems
- Hadoop
- Ray
- Spark
- Azure/C2S
- hardware platforms
- advanced analytical methodologies
- Large Language Models
- Multimodal LLMs
- Langchain
- vLLM
- llama.cpp

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