Associate Data Scientist

The MITRE Corporation • Colorado Springs, CO • 1d ago

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We're a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation's health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

The System Engineering Analytics Department is seeking a motivated, creative Data Scientist to apply cutting edge tools and techniques to challenging problems facing the US government. This position offers the opportunity to combine Systems Engineering with Data Analytics to build end to end data analytic pipelines. You will have the opportunity to learn from seasoned data professionals in a fast paced and dynamic atmosphere. You will have the opportunity to make strategic differences and have real long-term impacts on some of the most challenging problems in the government space.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will:

Be passionate about applying data analytics to real world problems.

Have an innate curiosity and interest in developing research questions and testing hypotheses with open ended tasking.

Work with a spectrum of government sponsors to gain understanding of their challenges, evaluate possible solutions and conduct insightful, actionable analyses.

Support the development and application of a variety of analytical models to sponsor challenges, with a willingness to adapt and learn.

Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise.

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

Demonstrated ability to manipulate large datasets

Experience with analytic tools such as Python, SAS, MATLAB, JavaScript, R, Java

Data Visualization tools such as Tableau, QuickSight, PowerBI, etc.

Ability to formulate complex algorithms and process to solve complex data problems

Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, and Word

Must have demonstrated proficiency and strength in verbal, written, PC, presentation, and communications skills

Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.

This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates that possess a current/active US Government clearance are preferred

Academic/project experience working with databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB)

Software Development experience in a shared environment leveraging tools such as GIT

Experience with full-stack development (e.g. HTML, JS, HTML, NodeJS, SQL, Python, etc.)

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$80,000 - $100,000 - $120,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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Benefits information may be found here (https://careers.mitre.org/us/en/benefits) .

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