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Senior Data Scientist

Intelligent Waves LLC

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IT - Data Science
Reston, VA (On-Site/Office)

Overview

Join our team as a Data Scientist and help turn complex data into actionable solutions that drive real-world impact. In this role, you'll collaborate with clients across public and private sectors to understand their objectives and uncover meaningful insights from structured and unstructured data. You'll apply your expertise in IoT, machine learning, and AI to develop models, algorithms, and analytical systems that address critical challenges in areas such as fraud detection, healthcare, and national security.

Intelligent Waves delivers mission-focused multi-domain operational expertise and innovation to the Government through high-impact technology solutions in cybersecurity, data science, enterprise network & systems engineering, software development, and cognitive human performance.

ALWAYS READY. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. ANY DOMAIN.

Since 2006, we have proudly served federal agencies including the Department of Defense. Our ability to operate globally in a wide range of environments coupled with our deep understanding of customer needs and requirements enables us to provide cost-effective solutions to support the most complex missions.

Travel: None

Location: Onsite in Reston, VA initially, with the position expected to relocate to Ft. Belvoir in approximately one year. The selected candidate will work as part of a broader team to provide ongoing coverage and support throughout both phases.

Security Clearance: Must be a United States Citizen and hold a current TS-SCI security clearance.

Adherence to all customer site protocols is mandatory for employees.

Responsibilities

Data Analysis & Insight Generation

  • Analyze and interpret structured and unstructured data to extract meaningful insights
  • Explore data-rich environments to identify patterns, trends, and relevant information
  • Transform complex datasets into objective, actionable insights to support client decision-making

Advanced Technologies & Solutions Development

  • Apply expertise in IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve real-world challenges
  • Lead the development of algorithms, models, and analytical systems
  • Select and apply appropriate tools and frameworks to analyze and interpret diverse data sets

Collaboration & Communication

  • Collaborate with clients across public and private sectors to understand their data needs and objectives
  • Deliver clear explanations of data significance and applications to clients and stakeholders

Team Leadership & Mission Impact

  • Guide and support teammates in data science tasks and project execution
  • Contribute to mission-driven projects that address global issues such as fraud detection, healthcare, and national security

Qualifications

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including using Python and NLP and LLM implementation
  • 5+ years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining
  • Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
  • Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
  • Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
  • Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
  • Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
  • TS/SCI clearance - (must have already)
  • Bachelor's degree

Desired

  • Experience in collaborating with MLOps and infrastructure engineers to ensure robust model deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
  • Experience supporting platform components such as documents indexing or search, GPU workloads, and distributed storage, including Cloudera
  • Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL
  • Experience with Distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL
  • Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2

Since 2006, Intelligent Waves has remained committed to providing quality engineering, operations, and intelligence solutions to our clients and it all starts with YOU.

Intelligent Waves provides a great and generous benefits package to include medical, dental and vision, paid PTO, life & disability packages. We also invest in our employees' futures by contributing with vesting starting from DAY 1, technical training, tuition bonuses, and much, much more.

Clearance Statement

Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, Intelligent Waves will consider only applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

EEO Statement

Intelligent Waves LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.

As an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, IW is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates and current employees. As part of this commitment, IW will ensure that those in need are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact humanresources@intelligentwaves.com.

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Intelligent Waves delivers mission-focused multi-domain operational expertise and innovation to the Government through high-impact technology solutions in cybersecurity, data science, cognitive human performance, software development, and enterprise network & systems engineering. Always ready. Anytime. Anywhere. Any domain. Since 2006, we have proudly served federal agencies including the Department of Defense. Our ability to operate globally in a wide range of environments coupled with our deep understanding of customer needs and requirements enables us to provide cost-effective solutions to support the most complex missions. Our Mission: Deliver innovative technology solutions to enable a more secure nation. Anytime. Anywhere. Any domain.

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IT - Data Science
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Top Secret