Data Scientist SME
Rapid Cycle Solutions is hiring an on-site Data Scientist SME in McLean, VA to provide NLP-driven analysis for senior leaders: cleaning structured/unstructured text data, building NLP/ML models in Python (SpaCy, PyTorch, Hugging Face), writing SQL/ETL in Oracle, and visualizing insights. Requires TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- McLean, Virginia, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data science
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
- U.S. Citizenship required (no exceptions)
- Professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks (library selection, preprocessing, analysis, model performance assessment)
- Experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
- Experience with the Hugging Face Transformers library and hub
- Creating ML models for text classification and topic modeling in Python (Scikit-learn or deep learning)
- Experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models for NLP tasks
- Experience communicating methodological choices and model results
- Proficiency with SQL including common table expressions, set operations, aggregate functions, and nested subqueries
- Experience with version control systems such as GitHub and Jenkins
- Leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing
- Develop practical approaches for measuring performance
- Assist in developing measures, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting it to senior leadership
- Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics
- Assist in selecting or developing appropriate research methodology
- Analyze information and present research findings in an easily understood manner
Nice to have
- Writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases
- Cloud computing development and architecture
- Front-end web development frameworks such as Flask
- Developing applications for semantic search
- Tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to use cases
- Proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards
Full description
- Location: McLean, VA
- Schedule: Full-Time
- Work Location: On-Site
- Shift: Day Job
- Travel: No
- Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with FS Poly
- Benefits: Click here
Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex, cross-organizational solution analysis, design, development, implementation, and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.
*Note: Please ensure you meet the Security Clearance obligations before applying to optimize your consideration for this and other employment opportunities with RCS.
RCS is seeking a Data Scientist SME to provide data-driven business analysis to support senior organizational leaders. Requires support specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and associated data preparation to help identify challenges and opportunities for the customers. Experience with SQL and Python skills to transform the 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.
This position requires the candidate to meet specific Security Clearance obligations to work onsite in McLean, VA.What you will do:
- Work closely with the data scientists and technical team to implement requirements; however, the GTM will manage the priorities.
- Conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
- Analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
- Preprocess or clean structured and unstructured data, including text data.
- Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
- Use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
- Work independently, or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualizations using the templates.
- Stay current with the enterprise metadata collection tools.
- Implement the existing coordination process.
- Provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis.
- Provide subject matter expertise in NLP to support initiatives.