Data Scientist

Job Description

Job Summary

In this dynamic role, you will join a top-tier team of Information Technology and Analytic professionals dedicated to supporting national security through innovative data science and analytics. You will work in a self-contained Big Data environment where the team manages everything from infrastructure and application development to advanced analytics. This position offers numerous opportunities for growth, collaboration, and problem-solving in a thought-provoking, mission-driven setting.

Responsibilities

• Working with large, complex, and disparate data sets
• Designing and implementing innovative ways to analyze and exploit the Sponsor’s data holdings
• Researching and reporting on a wide variety of Sponsor inquiries
• Raising proactive inquiries to the Sponsor based on observations and proposed data analysis/exploitation
• Solving difficult, non-routine problems by applying advanced analytical methodologies, and improving analytic methodologies
• Developing custom searches
• Participating in threat hunting and/or developing advanced, novel detection mechanisms to counter malicious actors

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of appropriate analytic tools and methodologies in one or more of the following:
• Applied mathematics (e.g. probability and statistics, formal modeling, computational social sciences)
• Computer programming (e.g. programming languages, math/statistics packages, computer science, machine learning, scientific computing)
• Ability to code or script in one or more general programming language
• Experience with, and understanding of, algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection
• Knowledge of relational databases, including SQL and large-scale distributed systems (e.g. Hadoop)
• Expertise with statistical data analysis (e.g. linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods)
• Demonstrated effectiveness in collecting information and accurately representing/visualizing it to non-technical third parties

Desired

• Experience working in a mission environment and/or with many different types of data
• Familiarity with building MVP/Prototype data engineering pipelines to support novel analytics
• Experience in signature development, threat hunting, and/or threat modeling
• Background in computer network operations, particularly network defense and/or exploitation