Senior Data Scientist

Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support a federal government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Design and implement advanced ML models and statistical methods to optimize forecasting, risk assessment, and decision-making processes.
• Conduct data provenance tracking, ensuring documentation of sources, transformations, and lineage for compliance with governance policies.
• Submit the Data Provenance & Lineage Report, summarizing transformation workflows, feature engineering processes, and audit compliance.

Job Requirements

Experience:

• Possess the knowledge and capability to develop advanced machine learning models and optimize analytic workflows for predictive and prescriptive intelligence.
• Personnel must be proficient in deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, data wrangling, and feature engineering.
• Experience with data provenance tracking, model explainability, and bias mitigation in AI/ML applications is required.
• Personnel must be able to translate operational challenges into analytic solutions, ensuring integration of structured, unstructured, and geospatial data.
• Personnel must have demonstrated experience in building and validating AI/ML models using Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn, integrating models into production environments, and optimizing performance for real-time analytics.
• Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar distributed data processing frameworks is required.
• Personnel must also have experience working with geospatial datasets and integrating AI/ML solutions into mission-critical applications.

Education:

• A Master's degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or nine (9) years of equivalent experience in AI/ML model development and deployment.
• Desirable but not required certifications include Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, or TensorFlow Developer Certification.

Security clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance.

Location:

• Doral, Florida. (USSOUTHCOM Headquarters)

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization's success.