Data Scientist NLP at Analytica

Analytica is seeking a Data Scientistto support long term federal client engagements projects in the DC Metro area. The role will apply statistical programming modeling visualization techniques data mining and forecasting skills to analyze challenging public sector problems. This position is fully remote.Analytica has been recognized by 3 consecutive years as one of the 250 fastest growing business. We offer competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses employer paid health care training and development funds and 401k match. Responsibilities include:Pre-processing - Demonstrate the skills and experience to collect clean and prepare data sets for input into a computational model using Python. Strong candidates will explain various methods you have applied using common pre-processing functions such as stop word removal stemming lemmatization and tokenization.Feature Engineering and Attribute Evaluation - Candidate must demonstrate experience with NLP feature engineering methods such as TF-IDF word2vec GloVe and FastText identifying the key determinants for modeling that exist in the business process and within existing data sets as well as selecting evaluation protocols (model techniques). Modeling - Candidates will have practiced skills and experience selecting classification modeling techniques to fit the business problem. Examples will include techniques such as machine learning (ML) supervised and unsupervised learning regression neural networks and deep learning natural language processing etc. Validation - Strong candidates will describe their experience with investigating reporting and justifying model results. Visualization- Experience in presenting the results of their modeling activities depicting the insights realized and explaining the relevance of their results to the organizations business challenges.Qualifications:Masters degree required and PhD preferred in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or similarHigh degree of experience utilizing SAS R or Python to support NLP use cases such as Document Summarization Named Entity Recognition Sentiment Analysis and/or Topic Modeling At least four years of experience developing scalable production-ready NLP solutions using sci-kit learn Keras TensorFlow PyTorch Spark NLP. Experience using git/github to version control source codeExperience leveraging transformer architecture to develop NLP modelsExperience with open source NLP packages such as Gensim SpaCy or NLTK.Experience with BERT GPT-J RoBERTa T5 or other transformersExperience with GenAI and Prompt Engineering is a plusExperience in Databricks and MLFlow is a plusExperience with machine translation and transcription of foreign language documents using Microsoft Azure translation services is a plusExperience working in an AWS cloud environment and with related AWS services such as Bedrock and TextractExperience coordinating and maintaining user storiesMust be a US citizenMust be able to obtain and maintain a Public trust security clearanceAboutAnalytica: Analytica is a leading consulting and information technology solutions provider to public sector organizations supporting health civilian and national security missions. The company is an award-winning SBA certified 8(a) small businessthat hasbeen recognized by Inc. Magazine each of the past three years as one of the 250 fastest-growingcompanies in the U.S. Analytica specializes in providing software and systems engineering information management analytics & visualization agile project management and management consulting services. The companyis appraised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at CMMI Maturity Level 3 and is an ISO 9001:2008 certified provider.Analytica LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. As a federal contractor we comply with the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.We ensure that all employment decisions are based on merit qualifications and business needs. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. Analytica LLC also provides reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable lawsWhen receiving email communication from Analytica please ensure that the email domain is to verify its authenticity. Required Experience:Senior IC Key Skills Laboratory Experience,Immunoassays,Machine Learning,Biochemistry,Assays,Research Experience,Spectroscopy,Research & Development,cGMP,Cell Culture,Molecular Biology,Data Analysis Skills Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1