Data Scientist at TUNNELL GOVERNMENT SERVICES in Bethesda, Maryland

Job Description:

Tunnell Government Services, Inc., is comprised of the industry's leading scientists, medical and technical experts, and human capital and organizational development professionals. We approach all projects as a team and are committed to helping our clients transform and quickly achieve strategic goals. If you are interested in joining an employee-owned company that develops and implements innovative, integrated and differentiated solutions, please click on the links below to find the job that is right for you and contact us.

Junior-level Data Scientist

Security Clearances required - US Citizen applications only

Required Education:

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

Required Skills/Experience:

• 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.

Major Duties/Tasks:

• 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

Tunnell is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Female / Minority / Disabled / Veteran Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, child-birth, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. Tunnell makes reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities to apply for employment.

Please be advised that some of our client contracts, including contracts with the federal government, require us to validate that our employees and contractors are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to legal requirements. If you are selected for this role or assignment, you will be required to confirm that you are fully vaccinated or engage in an interactive dialogue with Human Resources to determine if you are eligible for a religious or medical exception, and whether making such an exception would pose an undue burden or undue risk of harm.