Senior Data Scientist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔬 Science

Defense • Cybersecurity • Science

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Partner with stakeholders to scope questions and assumptions, support solution design, and facilitate project execution. • Design and implement robust data ingestion, storage, integration, processing, retrieval, and management strategies for research datasets. • Build transparent, reproducible pipelines and analysis environments in cloud infrastructures. • Produce crisp exhibits and memos that explain methods, limitations, and uncertainty. • Facilitate and execute data-driven research by applying sophisticated statistical, machine learning, and computational methods to analyze complex datasets related to computer and information science. • Create compelling data visualizations and reports that convey complex research findings in a clear and accessible manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Support defensible analytics and econometric/causal inference workstreams, translating ambiguous business or legal questions into testable hypotheses and clear, client-ready findings. • Design and execute rigorous studies (e.g., difference-in-differences, panel models with fixed/random effects, instrumental variables/2SLS, time series/forecasting, etc.) to turn multi-source datasets into documented, auditable results. • Mentor teammates on best practices. • Stay updated on the latest academic research and industry advancements in data science, AI, and information systems, and apply relevant findings to ongoing projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors degree with 8+ years of applied data science experience or a Master’s degree with 6+ years of prior relevant experience. • Mastery of Python or R, statistical tools such as Stata, SAS and strong SQL. • Expertise with ML algorithms (e.g. model selection, evaluation, feature engineering, etc.) • Expertise with application of AI to deliver insights with optimal performance, cost savings, etc. using structured, unstructured data. • Expertise with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Matplotlib). • Experience processing large datasets, deploying LLMs in government cloud data platforms (e.g. Azure ADLS/Databricks/Azure ML, or equivalents). • Comparative understanding of LLMs (e.g. Claude Code, ChatGPT), and tradeoffs in terms of capabilities, cost, and performance. • Familiarity with FISMA/NIST/Zero Trust security frameworks • U.S Citizenship required. • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and analytically to address complex research challenges. • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and a bias toward rigor, clarity, and defensibility over black-box modeling are essential. • The ability to obtain a Principal Data Scientist (PDS) certification or equivalent within 120 days after start date with Leidos and ability to maintain.

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive compensation • Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement