NV5
AI

Senior Data Scientist

NV5 · Saint Petersburg, FL, US

Actively hiring Posted 5 months ago

Role overview

  • Onsite - US Army Garrison – Miami / SOUTHCOM HQ
  • Potential travel up to 5-15% of the time

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Implement sprint-based Agile methodologies, ensuring rapid development cycles, backlog grooming, and alignment with mission requirements.
  • Provide Rough Order of Magnitude estimates before each analytic project detailing hours, compute costs, storage consumption, and infrastructure requirements.
  • Conduct quarterly reviews to track cost efficiency, assess system performance, and optimize analytic workflows.
  • Masters’s degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or nine (9) years of equivalent experience leading AI/ML model development and deployment.
  • Demonstrated experience 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.
  • Demonstrated experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar distributed data processing frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience with geospatial datasets and integration AI/ML solutions into mission-critical applications.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, data wrangling, and feature engineering.
  • Demonstrated experience with data provenance tracking, model explainability, and bias mitigation in AI/ML applications.
  • Demonstrated capability to translate operational challenges into analytic solutions, ensuring integration of structured, unstructured, and geospatial data.
  • Ability to manage and prioritize complex project tasks.

Preferred qualifications

  • Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate, or TensorFlow Developer Certification.
  • Portuguese or Spanish language skills.
  • Experience with government IT programs and environments.
  • Active TS/SCI

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