Data Scientist

Working at NT Concepts means that you are part of an innovative, agile company dedicated to solving the most critical challenges in National Security. We’re looking for the best and the brightest to join us in supporting this mission. If meaningful work, initiative, creativity, and continuous self-improvement are important to your career, join our growing team and discover What's Next for you. We tackle hard problems to meet our clients' needs.

Mission Focus: As a Data Scientist, you will have the unique opportunity to curate and organize data for a program advancing state-of-the-art modeling and prediction capabilities. The aim of this program is to understand object detection robustness. This requires careful curation of data as well as development and curation of synthetic data. Additionally, you will contribute to the program’s source code, implementing data curation and data science techniques.

Our delivery teams are driven to explore new ideas and technology, and care deeply about collaboration, feedback, and iteration. We follow SAFe agile practices, embrace the Ops ethos (DataOps/DevSecOps/MLOps) to “automate-first”, use modern tech stacks, and constantly challenge each other to grow and improve. 

If cutting edge data science projects resonate with you, and you care deeply about joining a mission-driven company with a strong growth direction and diverse culture, we'd love to learn more about you. Check out the details below, and let’s connect. 

Technical members of our solutions teams require little guidance, but love to learn, collaborate, and problem solve. This position requires a mid to senior level of experience, a passion for mission support, and a strong desire to solve our customers’ hardest technical and data challenges. 

Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance. US Citizenship is required.

Location: Vienna, VA with remote flexibility.

Responsibilities:

As a Data Scientist, you will:

• Work in a cross-functional software development and product development team to build code to analyze data and execute the data analysis


• Create and simulate synthetic data to augment computer vision models where data is scarce


• Assist in creating and visualizing explainable AI, performance metrics


• Assess, transform, organize, and optimize data for use by machine learning algorithms


• Develop algorithms to efficiently process data, executed standardized analysis


• Support to writing Data Science related project proposals


• Engagement in solutioning sessions


• Drafting portions of the technical sections of a project proposal

Required Qualifications:

• You have 5+ years of experience designing and implementing data curation techniques specifically those designed for imagery


• You have built and maintained ETL pipelines and are experienced with Kubeflow pipelines


• You have worked with imagery data, overhead imagery (optical or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)), and synthetic data generation and analysis.


• You think critically about hard problems


• You enjoy building data pipelines in ML frameworks


• You desire a fast-paced, collaborative, Agile environment


• You are familiar with machine and deep learning libraries such as Scikit-learn and PyTorch


• You are proficient with the Python programming language


• You have worked with Git version control systems


• You are no stranger to the Linux OS

Physical Requirements:

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Must be able to lift up to 10-15 pounds at time

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About NT Concepts

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in the Washington DC Metro area, NT Concepts is a private, mid-tier company with clients spanning the Intelligence and Defense communities. We deliver end-to-end ​data and technology solutions ​that advance the modernization, transformation, and automation of the national security mission—solutions with real impact developed in a strong engineering culture that encourages technical growth, leadership, and creative “big idea” problem-solving.

Employees are the core of NT Concepts. We understand that world-changing concepts happen in collaborative environments. We are a company where talented teams work together using innovation and expertise to solve our clients’ most critical challenges. Here, you’ll gain competitive benefits , opportunities to bolster your skills and develop new abilities, and a company culture dedicated to support and service. In addition to our benefits program, we encourage our employees to take part in #NTC_GivesBack , which paves the way for positive social change.

If joining a stable company with strong professional growth opportunities resonates with you, and you seek vital, mission-driven projects (for some pretty cool clients) that use your specific talents, we’d love to have you move forward with us.