Back to jobs
New

Data Scientist

Herndon

đź”’ Clearance & Citizenship Requirements

This position requires U.S. Citizenship and an active TS/SCI security clearance with Full Scope Polygraph. Candidates who do not currently hold these credentials will not be considered.

Description:
The maximum number of FTEs is two (2). Actual FTE bid, labor category, and skill level is at the discretion of the Contractor.

INTRODUCTION:
The Sponsor provides data-driven business analysis to support senior organizational leaders. The Sponsor requires support specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and associated data preparation to help identify challenges and opportunities for the Sponsor’s customers. The Sponsor needs experienced SQL and Python skills 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.

WORK REQUIREMENTS:
Data Science Support – HRR: NO
The Contractor shall work closely with the Sponsor’s data scientists and technical team to implement requirements; however, the Sponsor’s GTM will manage the priorities.
• The Contractor shall conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
• The Contractor shall analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
• The Contractor shall preprocess or clean structured and unstructured Sponsor data, including text data.
• The Contractor shall design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
• The Contractor shall use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Sponsor’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
• The Contractor shall independently, or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualizations using the Sponsor’s templates.
• The Contractor shall stay current with the Sponsor’s enterprise metadata collection tools.
• The Contractor shall implement the Sponsor’s existing coordination process.
• The Contractor shall provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis.
• The Contractor shall provide subject matter expertise in NLP to support Sponsor’s initiatives
Required Skills:
1. 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.
2. Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
3. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
4. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
5. 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.
6. Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
7. Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
8. Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
9. Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
10. Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
11. Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
12. Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
13. Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
14. Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research.
15. Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
Desired Skills:
1. Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
2. Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture
3. Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
4. Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
5. Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
6. Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Education

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in Kepora’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.