Job Description
Job Description - Work closely with a tight-knit team of data scientists, as well as a larger team of software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts to design, build, and optimize a Data Science platform to produce and analyze results, disseminate findings, and contribute to publications and presentations.
- Work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data covering national security, cyber security, business intelligence, online social media, human behavior and more.
- Support multiple simultaneous projects and take open-ended or high-level guidance, independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are mission-relevant, and package and deliver the findings to a non-technical audience.
- Bring your mix of intellectual curiosity, quantitative acumen, and customer-focus to identify novel sources of data across a range of fields, to improve the performance of predictive algorithms, and to encourage user adoption of high-end data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified, highly motivated team.
- Leverage your strong background in research design, exploratory analysis, quantitative methods, user interface application design, and experience with customer outreach and engagement.
Required Skills - B.S. Degree in a quantitative or analytical field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, or Computational Social Science; or Master’s degree or equivalent graduate degree including certificate-based advanced training courses.
- 4+ years of experience in data science, analytics or quantitative intelligence analysis, and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes. 2+ years of experience required with a Masters or an additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree.
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages such as R or Python.
- Experience in reverse engineering and advanced digital forensics.
- Experience working with a hybrid team of analysts, engineers, and developers to conduct research, and build and deploy complex, but easy-to-use algorithms and analytical platforms.
- Previous experience performing research in data analytics or big data.
- Track record of active learning and creative problem solving.
- Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.
Desired Skills - Data analytics experience in direct support of military or intelligence community customers, demonstrating progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.
- Significant experience dealing with at least two of the following data classes: open source, publicly available information (PAI); forensic media (i.e. DOMEX); measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT).
- Significant experience with Knowledge Graphs and KG tech such as neo4j.
- Previous experience developing predictive algorithms.
- Familiarity with social network analysis, supply chain analysis, forensic accounting, pattern of life, natural language processing, social media analysis, classification algorithms, and/or image processing.
- Experience blending analytical methodologies and leveraging existing COTS/GOTS/OS tools in an unconventional manner.
- Familiarity utilizing virtualization and distributed field systems, such as Hadoop (or similar distributed file systems) in development and deployment environments.
- Familiarity using git, svn, JIRA, or other version control technologies.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS/C2S).
- Familiarity with hardware platforms, e.g., CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.
Pay & Benefit Highlights Compensation
- Above market fixed salary or hourly pay.
- Up to $10,000 bonus for each referral.
- Additional bonuses for exceptional performance, assisting with business development and company growth.
Health - 100% paid premiums for health insurance. Choose from over 80 gold-level medical plans from Aetna, CareFirst, Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare. Choose from PPO, EPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible.
- HSA and FSA options.
- 100% paid premiums for dental insurance.
- 100% paid premiums for vision insurance.
Income Protection - 100% paid premiums for short-term disability.
- 100% paid premiums for long-term disability.
- 100% paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment.
- 100% paid premiums for life insurance with a $200,000 max benefit.
Retirement - 8% company contribution to 401k with immediate vesting.
- 401k pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave - Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
- 11 days of paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance - Flexible work schedules including flex time and compressed work period.
- Remote work including partial or fully remote (contract and project-dependent).
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