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