Data Scientist - NLP

We are seeking a Data Scientist to support long-term federal client engagements projects in the DC Metro area. The role will apply statistical programming, modeling, visualization techniques, data mining, and forecasting skills to analyze challenging public sector problems. This position is fully remote and has the potential to convert to a full-time, regular employee role based on business needs, project funding, and individual performance.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include pre-processing, feature engineering, modeling, validation, and visualization of data sets using Python, NLP techniques, and machine learning algorithms. Strong candidates will explain various methods they have applied using common pre-processing functions such as stop word removal, stemming, lemmatization, and tokenization.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in NLP, machine learning, and data science. The ideal candidate will have experience with NLP feature engineering methods, TF-IDF, word2vec, GloVe, and FastText, and will be able to select classification modeling techniques to fit the business problem.

Requirements

• Master's degree required, and PhD preferred in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar
• High degree of experience utilizing SAS, R, or Python to support NLP use cases
• At least four years of experience developing scalable, production-ready NLP solutions using sci-kit learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP
• Experience using git/github to version control source code
• Experience leveraging transformer architecture to develop NLP models
• Experience with open source NLP packages such as Gensim, SpaCy, or NLTK
• Experience with BERT, GPT-J, RoBERTa, T5 or other transformers
• Experience with GenAI and Prompt Engineering is a plus
• Experience in Databricks and MLFlow is a plus
• Experience with machine translation and transcription of foreign language documents using Microsoft Azure translation services is a plus
• Experience working in an AWS cloud environment and with related AWS services such as Bedrock and Textract
• Experience coordinating and maintaining user stories
• Must be a US citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public trust security clearance

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunities for bonuses
• Employer-paid health care
• Training and development funds
• 401k match