Data Scientist
Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI
Citizenship: US Citizenship Required
Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Data Scientist, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.
Responsibilities & Duties:
This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team, the Data Scientist's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment. The Scientist is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.
- Identify data sources and automate collection processes.
- Perform preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
- Analyze large, complex data sets to identify trends and patterns.
- Build predictive models and machine learning algorithms.
- Combine models through ensemble modeling.
- Present information using data visualization techniques.
- Propose solutions and strategies to address Key Intelligence Questions.
- Collaborate with engineering and product development teams.
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, ML Engineer, or Data Analyst and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
- 5+ years of experience in a Linux environment.
- Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with Python programming to build containerized microservices that use message queues such as activemq or rabbitmq.
- Experienced in ML Model performance testing and hyperparameter tuning (Tensorboard, wandb, mlflow).
- Experience training ML models with GPU acceleration in a containerized environment using common AI frameworks such as Tensorflow or Torch.
- Experience with workload managers (SLURM, Argo Workflow, Airflow).
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.
- Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly.
Desired Skills:
- Prior experience working with or within the Intelligence Community or a military intelligence unit.
- Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.).
- Computer vision-related experience with torchvision or tensorflow object detection APIs.
- Additional languages on top of Python preferred (C++, Julia, Go, R).
- Familiarity with Cloud Platform AI-ML toolsets (e.g. AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex).
- Experience building data pipelines with spark, kafka, or nifi.
Join Intellectix and be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
