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Data Scientist - Senior

Falls Church, VA💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$160,000🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop data pipelines, perform statistical analysis, and build software tools to manage imagery curation, labeling campaigns, and AI/ML model development for national security missions.

Role type

Senior Data Scientist (AI/ML & Data Systems)

Builds

Data pipelines, analytic tools, and software for imagery curation and labeling workflows

Domain

National Security / Defense / Geospatial Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, SQL, NoSQL, statistical analysis, ETL, data visualization, geospatial data handling, ML model development, data pipeline architecture

Preferred skills

NLP, Computer Vision, automated collection, causal modeling, data standardization

Technologies

Python, SQL, NoSQL, JSON, XML, Geospatial file formats

Responsibilities

Develop pipelines and data structures for emerging sensors and platforms; Analyze how new data impacts program holdings for ML and operational use cases; Build software tools to manage labeling campaigns and track data status; Design methods to partition data into training, test, and validation splits; Integrate multiple data sources for imagery curation; Build web scraping algorithms for data acquisition; Create insights from complex mission data using advanced mathematical techniques.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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