OpenArc - Empowering Your Career. As a leading IT staffing firm, we are dedicated to connecting talented professionals with your ideal opportunities. We are currently seeking a qualified Forward Deploy Software Engineer to join our client’s organization and contribute to their ongoing success.

Job summary

We are seeking an inquisitive, ambitious, and assertive data scientist to join our team and work directly with our clients to embed into their workflow and help them quickly find solutions to their most pressing questions using a combination of the data powering the Ark and customer-provided data.

Your role on the Data Science team will be primarily focused on integrating with our customers in a forward-deployed setting (i.e., at the customer’s site). You will work on-site with our customers to understand their day-to-day challenges and work to mitigate them through the development of key indicators and insights using appropriate data science methods for the problem. You will master our large datasets, and you will design and implement scalable statistical systems based on your analysis. You will be in a fast-paced environment and given the opportunity to quickly develop subject matter expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build models for advanced data analysis and complex algorithms
• Apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve on multiple real-time decision systems
• Make strategic recommendations on data collection, integration, and retention requirements, incorporating business requirements and knowledge of data industry best practices
• Model and frame business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact critical processes and decisions; transform, standardize, and integrate datasets for client use cases
• Rapidly build light-weight prototypes to demonstrate the core concepts
• Convert custom, complex, and manual client data analysis tasks into repeatable, configurable processes for consistent and scalable use within the SaaS platform
• Optimize processes for maximum speed, performance, and accuracy; craft clean, testable, and maintainable code
• Partner with internal data analysts and external client teams to seek out the best solutions regarding data-driven problem-solving
• Participate in end-to-end software development, on an agile team in a scrum process, collaborating closely with fellow software, machine learning, data, and QA engineers

Requirements:

• Data science experience
• Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
• Regular development experience in Python
• Advanced knowledge and experience with SQL
• Prior hands-on experience working with data-driven analytics
• Proven ability to develop solutions to loosely defined business problems by leveraging pattern detection over large datasets
• Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing, and optimization algorithms
• Experience using machine learning algorithms (e.g., gradient-boosted machines, neural networks, LLMs, etc)Ability to work independently and drive tasks to completion with little supervision
• Extremely strong communication and interpersonal skills
• A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced environment
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience working on agile/scrum teams
• Experience with major NLP frameworks

At OpenArc, we prioritize your career success and strive to build exceptional technical teams for our clients. By understanding your experience and aspirations, we ensure to present you with rewarding and fulfilling opportunities.

As an employee of OpenArc and our clients, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package.

OpenArc is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.