Data Scientist

What Impact You'll Have

GRVTY is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest. Work on this program takes place in McLean, VA and in various field offices throughout Northern VA (we cannot support remote work), and requires a TS/SCI + Polygraph clearance (acceptable to this customer).

GRVTY is seeking a Data Scientist with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (acceptable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in McLean, VA. The Sponsor provides data-driven business analysis to support senior organizational leaders. As such, the Data Scientist will provide support specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and associated data preparation to help identify challenges and opportunities for the Sponsor’s customers. The Data Scientist must also be experienced in areas of SQL and Python to be able to transform the Sponsor’s structured and unstructured data into clear and supported analytic insights to help customers with decision making related to production, resources and personnel. The work may be performed independently or within a team environment.

What You'll be Owning

Working closely with the Sponsor’s data scientists and technical team to implement requirements; however, the Sponsor’s GTM will manage the priorities

Conducting sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing

Analyzing large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights

Pre-processing and/or cleaning structured and unstructured Sponsor data, including text data

Designing and implementing advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets

Using Structured Query Language (SQL) in Sponsor’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics

Independently, or with a team, authoring analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualizations using the Sponsor’s templates

Staying current with the Sponsor’s enterprise metadata collection tools

Implementing the Sponsor’s existing coordination process

Providing technical education and subject matter expertise in NLP to support Sponsor’s initiatives to staff on an ad-hoc basis

What You Must Have

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance (acceptable to this customer)

Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance

Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents

Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras

Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub

Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit-learn) or deep learning models

Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks

Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results

Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries

Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins

Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing

Develop practical approaches for measuring performance

Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership

Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics

Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research

Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers

What Would be Nice to Have

Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases

Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture

Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask

Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search

Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases

Demonstrated profe…