Job Title

Senior Computer Scientist

Location

Quantico, VA 22134 US (Primary)

Category

Intelligence

Job Type

Full-Time

Career Level

Staff

Education

Master's Degree

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Job Description

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

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.

• Security clearance required TS/SCI with a CI POLY or the ability to obtain one.

• Employs mathematics, statics, information science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, network science, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and / or other scientific techniques to correlate complex, technical findings into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products on trends of existing intelligence data to leverage other IC data sources.
• Develop and utilize machine learning and data mining algorithms, including, but not limited to, Multiple Information Model Synthesis Architecture (MIMOSA) prediction algorithms based on open-source capabilities.
• Integrates or codes algorithms to support Government intelligence search and discovery missions.
• Makes best practice recommendations on managing data within hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth constraints.
• Employs data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-source data analytics, wargaming, and strategy development.
• Employ exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.
• Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.
• Possess in-depth knowledge employing data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and / or other scientific techniques to design and develop automated or computer-assisted prototypes or software to derive insight.
• Demonstrates documentation and instructions of prototypes to facilitate wide use.
• Serve as the primary POC for development expertise, working to streamline repetitive processes, access and integrate disparate data sets, and maintain internal tools for analytic production.
• Provide advice on opportunities to advance OCI's advanced analytics program by creating minimum viable products (MVPs) that standardize and export OCI tradecraft.
• Creates documentation capturing the function and purpose of MVPs and support transition to internal or external teams that will scale the capability to enterprise applications.
• Possess experience working with increasingly large and complex data, working and standing up distributed cluster for advanced analytics, and creating algorithms to clean, process, analyze, and visualize data.
• Possess experience with Python, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, and maintaining source code using Git.
• Make recommendations to develop MVPs based on mission requirements. Requires TPOC and COR approval.
• Supports capability development by contributing, editing, and storing code in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories.
• Create, edits, and disseminates, in partnership with other vendors or software developers, capability update briefs capturing outstanding requirements, requested features, bugs, planned development efforts, and priorities for prototypes or MVPs.
• Research and designs data, software, and other technical approaches to support all source intelligence analysis and data exploitation.
• Design and implement technical solutions that deliver automation, machine augmentation, and tradecraft compliant capabilities.
• Delivers technical capabilities that enhance the ability for all source analysts to interrogate increasingly large and complex data sets.
• Ensure that at least two computer scientists shall have all the certificates/tickets for 8570 compliances.
• Shall have in-depth knowledge of computer science and a deep expertise in its application.
• Apply scientific methods and technical tradecraft across the full range of intelligence requirements to support and/or contribute to all-source finished CI assessments or identification of FIE threats.
• Shall develop and implements innovative processes to research and evaluate technologies and processes to support all-source Finish CI assessments and to close intelligence gaps.
• Evaluate the functionality, effectiveness, and suitability of systems and applications to identify and address shortcomings.

• Desired experience minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the master's degree.

• Quantico, VA.