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Data Scientist with Security Clearance
Hoplite Solutions LLCMcLean, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 23 Jul 2026
Why This Role Stands Out
This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your advanced NLP and data science expertise within a reputable company, contributing to impactful projects while enjoying flexibility. You'll thrive here if you possess strong Python, SQL, and deep learning skills, and are eager to grow your career by tackling complex data challenges. Apply now to join a dynamic team and make a significant contribution!
Quick Overview
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Employee
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
Job Description Hoplite Solutions is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team to provide support specializing in natural language(NLP) processing and associated data preparation. The ideal candidate will have experienced SQL and Python skills to transform both structured and unstructured data into clear and concise analytic insights. This position in in Mclean, VA and requires a TS/SCI with polygraph. Key Responsibilities: * Work closely with data scientist and technical team to implement requirements.
* Conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing (NLP).
* Analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
* Preprocess or clean structured and unstructured data, including text data.
* Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets. * Use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Sponsor's Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics. * Author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualization.
* Stay current with enterprise metadata collection tools.
* Provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis. Required Skills Basic Qualifications * Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
* Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit-learn) or deep learning models.
* Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
* Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
* Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
* Developed practical approaches for measuring performance.
* Assisted in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
* Conducted advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
* Assisted in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research.
* Analyzed information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
* TS/SCI with polygraph. Desired Skills Desired Skills: * Experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
* Experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
* Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
* Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
* Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
* Conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing (NLP).
* Analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
* Preprocess or clean structured and unstructured data, including text data.
* Design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets. * Use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Sponsor's Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics. * Author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualization.
* Stay current with enterprise metadata collection tools.
* Provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis. Required Skills Basic Qualifications * Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
* Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (Scikit-learn) or deep learning models.
* Demonstrated academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
* Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
* Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
* Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
* Developed practical approaches for measuring performance.
* Assisted in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
* Conducted advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
* Assisted in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research.
* Analyzed information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
* TS/SCI with polygraph. Desired Skills Desired Skills: * Experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
* Experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
* Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
* Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
* Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
Skills
Flask
Oracle
SQL
ETL
Machine Learning
NLP
Scikit-learn
Deep Learning
Jenkins
Keras
PyTorch
Python
TensorFlow
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