Data Science Specialist
El Segundo, CA

Job Description

Requisition ID: 44345

All Locations: El Segundo, CA (California)

A trusted partner. A national resource. A leader in national security space. We are THE Aerospace Corporation. A team that takes pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex technical challenges in existence. With challenges spanning government to commercial, you'll have the unique opportunity to work on projects that are literally evolving our nation's space and launch capabilities. We all share a common passion and aspiration - to serve a mission much bigger than ourselves. When you join our team, you'll be part of a rare collection of thought leaders and game-changing innovators. Are you ready to launch your career?

Responsibilities

The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Department seeks a creative and enthusiastic Data Science Specialist to join a diverse team of engineers, data scientists, and programmers with a passion for machine and deep learning, data analytics, natural language processing, statistical analysis, and computer vision. We are a growing, innovative, and collaborative department that makes meaningful contributions to National Security Space (AF, NRO, etc.), and Civil and Commercial customers (NASA, MDA, DHS, etc.).

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in one or more of the following disciplines: Data Science, Applied or Theoretical Machine Learning, Deep Neural Network Architectures (Recurrent and Convolutional networks), Classification Systems, Unsupervised Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. They are also team-oriented, take initiative, focused on developing cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, and are comfortable balancing a variety of projects spanning internally funded research and development to direct customer support for mission-critical space systems.

* Interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams. Work closely with engineers and subject matter experts to identify opportunities and implement improvements to data analytics.
* Be a champion of Data Science and Machine/Deep Learning by fostering relationships and collaborative opportunities throughout the corporation and external peer organizations in the interest of National Security Space
* Solve difficult and non-routine analytics problems while prototyping and building analytics tools and pipelines
* Build and lead high-functioning teams of data scientists and software developers

Qualifications

This position can be filled as a Data Science Specialist or a Sr. Data Science Specialist

Requirements for Data Science Specialist

* Typically, eight or more years of relevant experience in industry and/or academia
* Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field and strong knowledge of machine learning
* The ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
* Fluency in at least one programing language (C++, Java, or similar) and one scripting language (Python, R, Julia, or similar)
* Familiarity with a broad set of supervised and unsupervised ML-based solutions to complex problems in business, science, or engineering
* Experience with fast prototyping
* Experience working and/or leading effectively with software engineering teams

Requirements for Sr. Data Science Specialist

* Typically, twelve or more years of relevant experience in industry and/or academia
* Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field and strong knowledge of machine learning
* The ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
* Fluency in at least one programing language (C++, Java, or similar) and one scripting language (Python, R, Julia, or similar)
* Familiarity with a broad set of supervised and unsupervised ML-based solutions to complex problems in business, science, or engineering
* Experience with fast prototyping
* Experience working and/or leading effectively with software engineering teams

Preferred

* Ph.D in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field and strong knowledge of machine learning
* Active TS/SCI security clearance
* Strong programming skills utilizing Scikit-learn, OpenCV, Keras and/or Tensorflow libraries
* Experience with machine learning methods like random forests, logistic regression, neural networks, k-nearest neighbor, Gaussian mixture models, and reinforcement learning
* Fluency in SQL, NoSQL and other big data querying languages
* Experience in collecting data from/exposing data to various data sources and services (API, XML, JSON, etc…)
* Familiarity with Amazon Web Services for data analytics
* Experience in implementing real-time machine learning and data mining algorithms in large scale environments
* Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
* Experience with multivariate statistics
* Participation in extracurricular activities related to data science (e.g. Kaggle competitions)
* Experience with big data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, etc.)

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