FedWriters is building a team to support the Department of Defense's efforts to integrate multi-source data and analytics to develop a comprehensive biosurveillance capability, enhancing situational awareness and decision-making in response to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. As a Data Scientist you will design, develop and support data science solutions. FedWriters is expanding rapidly and has been recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace by Washington Post, offering excellent growth opportunities in a collaborative environment.
- Designs, configures, develops, tests, and supports informatics and data science solutions for a wide array of technical use cases.
- Applies analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance.
- Documents and presents requirements, design alternatives, and findings to team members and clients.
- Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships.
- Experience with integrated development environments, data integration, data visualization, data mining, and analysis tools.
- Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
- Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping.
- Bachelor’s degree with 1-3 years experience.
- Active Secret level security clearance.
- Experience with ML fields, e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, statistical learning theory.
- Experience in an ML engineer or data scientist role building ML models.
- Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C++ with documentation for reproducibility.
- Experience handling terabyte size datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualization tools, writing SQL, and working with GPUs to develop models.
- Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences and giving data-driven presentations.