Brief Synopsis - SBC Innovations is seeking talent for a broadly experienced Senior Data Scientist to join its team. This individual in this role will play a critical role in developing and implementing Natural Language Processing (NLP) and web scraping solutions to support the broad protective mission.

Responsibilities:

• Modeling: Lead the development and implementation of NLP algorithms & models to drive key mission use cases.
• Data mining: Utilize NLP technologies to extract insights from internal data sources, including a mix of structured and unstructured data.
• Solution & System Development: Build and improve an automated threat-screening application that helps intelligence analysts consume, analyze, and escalate content.
• R&D: Stay up to date with the latest advancements in NLP/NLU/NLG and identify appropriate business use cases to apply them. Likewise, stay abreast of any advances in web scraping techniques/challenges.
• Technical leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and operations teams, to gather requirements and formulate them into feasible solutions for the unit.
• Communication: Lead interactions with operational and technical stakeholders to present findings, insights, and recommendations clearly and concisely, both verbally and through reports or presentations.
• Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior data scientists, data analysts, and/or software engineers, providing technical expertise and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of proven experience in designing, developing, and implementing AI/ML solutions, with at least 3 years in NLP models and algorithms.
• Proficiency in Python programming language, and expertise in relevant NLP and deep learning libraries and frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spacy, langchain).
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying NLP techniques (e.g. LLM, transformers, embeddings, topic models) to relevant use cases (NER, Q&A, document summarization/classification, text generation, sentiment analysis, semantic search).
• Familiarity with web scraping tools and strategies, including bulk API ingestion as well as HTML parsing approaches (e.g. Selenium, Beautifulsoup).
• Familiarity with cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS) and big data processing tools (e.g. Apache Spark).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work on complex challenges and deliver impactful solutions.
• Strong sense of curiosity and ability to self-learn; willingness to research, design, test & productize novel solutions and learn from open-ended experiments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders.

Preferred:

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, evaluating, and deploying real-time ML/NLP solutions.
• Strong experience building predictive classifier models.
• Strong experience working with data wrangling packages like pandas.
• Experience with GPU-based model training and inference infrastructure and architecture.
• Experience with responsible/trustworthy AI methodologies in NLP solutions.
• Experience with law enforcement is a plus.

Skill Sets Anticipated:

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Public Trust Clearance.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to display excellent interpersonal effectiveness and communication skills, both written and oral, within a team environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Familiarity with web scraping tools and strategies.
• Proficiency in Python programming language and relevant NLP and deep learning libraries.

Required Education – bachelor’s or master’s degree in one or more of the disciplines described.

Period of Performance – Immediate Hire, 80% Remote.

Salary – *Unknown* - pending customer response on funding requirements.

• with Benefits (e.g. Medical (Carefirst), Dental & Vision (Aetna)).
• 15 business days PTO (3 weeks) does not include government holidays.
• 11 Government based on OPM schedule.

Place of Performance - Arlington, VA

• The position requires 1 day onsite per customer request per week.

Security Requirements :

• All personnel, including the support required by this initiative, must be United States Citizens and must meet the DOJ (Department of Justice) Residency Requirement.
• The minimum investigation required is to be cleared for a US Government Security Eligible Public Trust clearance.
• Eligible to receive a Top-Secret Clearance.

Equipment furnished : The government/client will provide equipment to complete the job.