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Data Scientist Associate

SAIC

Description

SAIC is looking for a Data Scientist Associate to help the Identity and Data Sciences Laboratory (IDSL) which is tasked with identifying state-of-the-art technologies including facial recognition and AI, evaluating performance, and examining their applicability to existing or emerging customer use cases. The IDSL has a cutting-edge infrastructure consisting of both on-prem distributed computing clusters and cloud based analytic environments, which we use for gathering and processing multi-modal data in real-time from large-scale experiments conducted at our test facility (Maryland Test Facility; in field locations, as well as from external data sources.

Hybrid - 3 Days in Office / 2 Days Remote

What You Will Be Doing:

  • Contribute to data acquisition, management, and processing tasks, working with senior data scientists, software engineers and evaluation designers to build efficient data pipelines

  • Access available infrastructure, and to develop analytic products tailored to mission user requirements

  • Work with senior team members to organize, clean, migrate and process datasets with advanced computer vision algorithms

  • Testing different LLMs

Qualifications

Requirements:

  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, or a comparative quantitative science or scheduled to obtain one by spring or summer 2026

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust requiring US Citizenship

  • Proficient in programming a must (Python, C++, Golang, Java, etc.)

  • Ability to build out data pipelines as this will be the main function of role

  • Desire to learn GoLang

  • Familiar with machine learning, data mining, and/or statistics (R, Python, etc.)

  • Familiar with source control (e.g., Git)

  • Familiar with common data formats (JSON, Parquet, XML, etc.)

  • Familiar with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL)

  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audience

Desired Skills:

  • Prior experience related to data engineering, data science, data architecture, and databases

  • Understanding of scaling and performance of distributed/cloud systems (AWS)

  • Understanding of data science concepts, AI/ML, automation, and scripting

  • Experience with techniques and platforms to manage, manipulate, and draw insight from large datasets (Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, etc.)

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2612311

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago

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