Senior Data Scientist

Job Description:

Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to support a federal government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Design and implement advanced ML models and statistical methods to optimize forecasting, risk assessment, and decision-making processes.
• Conduct data provenance tracking, ensuring documentation of sources, transformations, and lineage for compliance with governance policies.
• Submit the Data Provenance & Lineage Report, summarizing transformation workflows, feature engineering processes, and audit compliance.

Job Requirements: Experience:

• Possess the knowledge and capability to develop advanced machine learning models and optimize analytic workflows for predictive and prescriptive intelligence.
• Personnel must be 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.
• 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.
• Personnel must also have experience working with geospatial datasets and integrating AI/ML solutions into mission-critical applications.

Education:

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

Security clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance.

Location:

• Doral, Florida. (USSOUTHCOM Headquarters)