Peraton has an opportunity for a Data Scientist to join their military intelligence program(s) to deliver, operate, and sustain modernized data science/data analysis environments worldwide. The successful candidate will utilize expertise in discovering and analyzing complex data sets and data sources to derive actionable insights using statistical methods, machine learning, and data visualization tools.
Requirements
- Conduct data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis
- Utilize scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual, and verbal narrative products to inform high-quality analytic decisions
- Proactively retrieve data from various sources and analyze data for better understanding
- Build and utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) tools to automate processes for efficiencies
- Build high-quality prediction systems
- Utilize data visualization and graphical applications, to include Microsoft Office (Power BI) and Tableau
- Utilize major data science languages, such as R and Python
- Perform management and merging of disparate data sources, preferably through R, Python, or SQL
- Perform statistical analysis, and data mining algorithms
- Design, develop, and evaluate leading-edge algorithmic intelligence concepts, practices, and technologies for implementation into OBI
- Recommend advanced statistical or mathematical techniques and methodology that may permit identification and evaluation of alternatives
- Assist in model formulation or experimental test design
- Share joint in team responsibility for development of advanced analytic techniques and assessments
- Collaborate with team members to develop and refine exploratory efforts leveraging novel technologies
- Automate ontologies and associated components to ensure semantic accuracy, relevance, and interoperability
- Evaluate data science, AI/ML, and other advanced analytic methods for risks, biases, and limitations
- Collaborate with team members to develop and refine semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g. GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL)
- Maintain currency with independent research on methods of analysis in government, industry, and academia to keep abreast of the state of the art and keep senior leadership informed
- Provide incremental enhancements to tools, capabilities, processes, and methods
- Advisor on emerging data science methods, tools, algorithms, training, or requirements
- Serve as the primary POC for data science expertise, ensuring tradecraft compliance and analytic standards as it relates to data science techniques on the contract
- Ensure compliance with tradecraft standards and adherence to best practices in AI system development and deployment
- Assess OBI documentation for completeness, accuracy, and thoroughness, and provide detailed feedback to owners and developers
- Provide consultation and guidance to owners, developers, and stakeholders on OBI governance and knowledge modeling, including best practices for AI system development, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with team members to identify and implement practices for responsible AI development, to include bias detection, hallucination recognition, prompt fairness testing, adherence to analytic tradecraft standards and security policies
- Support stakeholders in translating technical documentation into analytic tradecraft compliant language
- Support and automate entity recognition and extraction summarization, in accordance with analytic tradecraft standards
- Conduct audits to ensure compliant use of systems for approved use-cases in all source analysis
- Develop and maintain a repository of audit findings and recommendations to facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices
- Provide technical input into and participate in the development of software and computer graphics systems
- Writes scripts to drive data science workflows
- Work with ambiguous information, deconstruct key questions, leverage spatial data, exploit application programming interfaces, suggest methodologies, and develop data schemas to structure observations
- Work with vendors and software development to implement distributed algorithms
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
