About this opportunity
J5 Consulting lists this Data Scientist opportunity in mclean, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.
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.
Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience
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
Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents
Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras
Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub
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
Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks
Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results
Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries
Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins
Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing
Develop practical approaches for measuring performance
Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership
Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics
Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research
Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers
Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience
Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases
Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture
Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask
Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search
Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases
Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards
US Citizenship
This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Travel
This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA). Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.
Benefits
100% employer-paid health coverage
a 6% 401(k) match
PTO
tuition reimbursement
bonuses
professional development, and more
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Worksite address
mclean, VA, 22107, US
Who can apply
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