Data Scientist with Security Clearance - Las Vegas, NV, United States - BGI, LLC

    BGI, LLC
    BGI, LLC Las Vegas, NV, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Position Summary and Job Responsibilities Provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) to the United Operational Test Team (UOTT), F-15 Division, F-22 Division or Air Dominance Division with developing exploratory data analysis capabilities
    These capabilities will support the operational test and evaluation of the respective platforms by mining test and non-test data available through various means
    Generation of supporting documentation detailing methodology, processes, and utilization of these analysis capabilities is also required

    Will also provide A&AS with developing and managing (including internal/external collaboration) a unified AFOTEC Det 6 data analysis toolset shared across sites and 3rd party organizations.

    Job Responsibilities

    • Analysis and ML on time-series parametric data
    • Strategies and techniques for dimension reduction
    • Hierarchical analysis
    • Best-practices for data cleansing and prep
    • Service & microservice strategies at big data scale
    Experience with data center scale systems Required and/or Preferred Qualifications Required Skills:


    • B.S
    in Data Science, Statistics, Math, Engineering or a related field; M.S
    or PhD a plus.


    • Competence with statistical programming in Python or a similar language (R, MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple, Julia)
    • Ability to apply proper statistical methods; must recognize applications of confidence intervals, T-tests, distributions, and related subjects
    • Working understanding of applications of machine learning
    • Data visualization experience
    • Strong presentation skills; ability to understand requirements of and explain approaches to a non- or semi-technical audience

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Publications or similar peer-reviewed work written for external audiences
    • Expert understanding of statistical methods
    • High level of competence in data visualization (technologies to make them as well as best principles for design)
    • Experience with human factors (GUI design, experience working with human-generated data)
    • Experience maximizing performance by creating algorithms that operate on distributed compute frameworks (e.g., "big data")
    • Fighter aircraft knowledge and test experience is desired