job description are you a data scientist that likes to perform researchlevel data analytics willing to work in arlington va and at our customer sites in the national capital region to support ongoing and future programs to advance the state of the art in research and advanced machine learning natural language processing and data fusion applications in the areas of missionfocused big data analytics you will be designing and optimizing a data science platform to advance national security objectives produce and analyze results disseminate findings and contribute to publications and presentations with actionable intelligence insights exciting right fun stuff on the job you will do work closely with software developers network engineers senior investigators program managers researchers and data analysts on small teams to design and optimize a data science platform domex data discovery platform d3p to produce and analyze results disseminate findings and contribute to publications and presentations work on small projects analyzing a variety of big data covering national security cyber security business intelligence online social media human behavior and more support multiple simultaneous projects and take openended or highlevel guidance independently and collaboratively make discoveries that are missionrelevant and package and deliver the findings to a nontechnical audience have a mix of intellectual curiosity quantitative acumen and customerfocus to identify novel sources of data across a range of fields to improve the performance of predictive algorithms and to encourage user adoption of highend data analytics platforms in partnership with a highly qualified highly motivated team have a strong background in research design exploratory analysis quantitative methods user interface application design and experience with customer outreach and engagement to be successful in this role you need the following bs degree in a quantitative or analytical field such as computer science mathematics economics statistics engineering physics or computational social science or masters degree or equivalent graduate degree including certificatebased advanced training courses 4 years of experience in data science analytics or quantitative intelligence analysis and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes 2 years of experience required with ms must have an active ts clearance and must be able to achieve a tssci clearance with polygraph significant experience in one or more scripting languages such as r or python proficient in one or more big data programming languages such as java or python experience working with a hybrid team of analyst engineers and developers to conduct research and build and deploy complex but easytouse analytical platforms previous experience performing research in data analytics or big data you will wow us even more if you have these skills a significant share of your data analytics experience in direct support if military or intelligence community customers demonstrating progressive technical development and missionfocused outcomes significant experience dealing with open source publicly available information pai data sources and types track record of active learning and creative problem solving ability to analyze and assess software development or data