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Founded in 1989, SOSi is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to enable national security missions worldwide.

SOSi is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support mission requirements for a structured approach to further develop, integrate, and sustain a scalable, federated data ecosystem that enhances interoperability, governance, and mission-driven analytics for a DoD customer. The primary objective of the program is to bridge the operational gaps between DoD, IC, interagency, and non-traditional international partners to enable real-time information sharing, dynamic data integration, and mission-tailored analytical capabilities.

Essential Job Duties:

• The contractor shall design and implement advanced ML models and statistical methods to optimize forecasting, risk assessment, and decision-making processes.
• The contractor shall conduct data provenance tracking, ensuring documentation of sources, transformations, and lineage for compliance with governance policies.
• The contractor shall submit the Data Provenance & Lineage Report, summarizing transformation workflows, feature engineering processes, and audit compliance.
• The contractor shall implement sprint-based Agile methodologies, ensuring rapid development cycles, backlog grooming, and alignment with mission requirements.
• The contractor shall provide a Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate Report before each analytics project, detailing expected Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) hours, compute costs, storage consumption, and infrastructure requirements.
• The contractor shall conduct quarterly reviews to track cost efficiency, assess system performance, and optimize analytic workflows through the Quarterly Cost & Resource Utilization Report.

• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• Master’s degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or;
  • nine (9) years of equivalent experience in AI/ML model development and deployment. 
• Personnel must have demonstrated experience in building and validating AI/ML models using Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn, integrating models into production environments, and optimizing performance for real-time analytics.
• Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, or similar distributed data processing frameworks is required.
• Experience working with geospatial datasets and integrating AI/ML solutions into mission-critical applications.
• Possess the knowledge and capability to develop advanced machine learning models and optimize analytic workflows for predictive and prescriptive intelligence.
• Proficient in deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, data wrangling, and feature engineering.
• Experience with data provenance tracking, model explainability, and bias mitigation in AI/ML applications is required.
• Personnel must be able to translate operational challenges into analytic solutions, ensuring integration of structured, unstructured, and geospatial data.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Desirable but not required certifications include Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate, or TensorFlow Developer Certification.

Work Environment

• Full remote flexibility.

Working at SOSi

All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.