Junior Data Scientist

Position: Junior Data Scientist    
Location: Falls Church, VA & Arlington, VA
Work Environment: Hybrid
Clearance Required: Secret
Status: Contingent upon contract award 

Knowesis, a dynamic and forward-thinking company, is currently seeking an exceptional Junior Data Scientist to join our team and provide invaluable support to the Chief Digital AI Office.

To be eligible for this position, candidates must have a Secret clearance and possess U.S. Citizenship without the need for sponsorship, both now and in the future. Applicants without proof of U.S. Citizenship will not be considered due to the position’s security clearance requirements.

 The Job Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:  

• Designs, configures, develops, tests, and supports informatics and data science solutions for a wide array of technical use cases;
• Applies analytical methodologies to diagnose data-related challenges, implement solutions, and evaluate performance;
• Documents and presents requirements, design alternatives, and findings to team members and clients;
• Ability to develop strategic, baselined, data modeling processes; ability to accurately determine cause-and-effect relationships; and
• Experience with integrated development environments, data integration, data visualization, data mining, and analysis tools.
• Maintains and guides the development of common libraries and tools used by multiple teams.
• Aids in formulating a strategy on how to achieve rapid prototyping

Required Qualifications:  

• Experience with ML fields, e.g., natural language processing, computer vision, statistical learning theory;
• Experience in an ML engineer or data scientist role building ML models;
• Experience writing code in Python, R, Scala, Java, C++ with documentation for reproducibility;
• Experience handling terabyte size datasets, diving into data to discover hidden patterns, using data visualization tools, writing SQL, and working with GPUs to develop models; and
• Experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business, technical, and lay audiences and giving data-driven presentations.

Required Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 1-3 years of experience.

Knowesis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.