Data Scientist

Data Scientist

Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI
Citizenship: US Citizenship Required

Whether running countries, corporations, or courtrooms, our clients bear the responsibility for shaping the lives of millions. At Intellectix, we are on a mission to empower them with innovative technical solutions and drive transformational change. As a Data Scientist, you'll be the cornerstone of this mission, ensuring the security of crucial data, optimizing IT infrastructure, and simplifying business processes through cutting-edge software systems. Because at Intellectix, it's not what we do, it's why we do it.

Responsibilities & Duties:

This position supports the Geospatial Services & Solutions business area to provide high-quality, cost-effective solutions to the customer. As part of the GSS Team, the Data Scientist's expertise is needed to support a sophisticated enterprise environment. The Scientist is an active participant in SAFe and Scrum development teams and meetings.

• Identify data sources and automate collection processes.


• Perform preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.


• Analyze large, complex data sets to identify trends and patterns.


• Build predictive models and machine learning algorithms.


• Combine models through ensemble modeling.


• Present information using data visualization techniques.


• Propose solutions and strategies to address Key Intelligence Questions.


• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, ML Engineer, or Data Analyst and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Programming, Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.


• 5+ years of experience in a Linux environment.


• Direct experience and demonstrated proficiency with Python programming to build containerized microservices that use message queues such as activemq or rabbitmq.


• Experienced in ML Model performance testing and hyperparameter tuning (Tensorboard, wandb, mlflow).


• Experience training ML models with GPU acceleration in a containerized environment using common AI frameworks such as Tensorflow or Torch.


• Experience with workload managers (SLURM, Argo Workflow, Airflow).


• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.


• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.


• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.


• Active TS/SCI clearance required and eligibility to obtain a CI poly.

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience working with or within the Intelligence Community or a military intelligence unit.


• Understanding of access management and security groups (i.e. IAM, S3 bucket, SSH, VPN, etc.).


• Computer vision-related experience with torchvision or tensorflow object detection APIs.


• Additional languages on top of Python preferred (C++, Julia, Go, R).


• Familiarity with Cloud Platform AI-ML toolsets (e.g. AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex).


• Experience building data pipelines with spark, kafka, or nifi.

Join Intellectix and be part of a dynamic team that thrives on tempo, teamwork, and technical excellence. Your skills and expertise will contribute to creating a safer and smarter tomorrow.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.