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Data Scientist

2025-154170

CAtegory:

Scientific, Research & Analysis

Clearance:

Public Trust
Location: Home, VA

Telecommute:

Remote work allowed 100%
About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Program Overview
About The Role

 

We are looking to add a Data Scientist to our team of professionals.

 

What you'll do:

 

The Data Scientist will have crucial role in delivering new MLOps capabilities, integrating advanced AI use cases, and deploying LLMs into an existing cloud-based, distributed, high-performance analytics platform.

  • Integration of model governance for secure deployment and release of models. This includes maintaining automated release pipelines, automated testing, and overall governance checks for ML models, using MLFlow, and non-ML models.
  • Exercising strong technical and computational skills - ability to code design, develop, and deploy sophisticated applications using high-performance compute environments.
  • Designing model development lifecycle optimizations and process automation of model quality checks.
  • Ensuring data security, quality, and overall governance is at the forefront of all newly implemented changes.
  • Staying up to date with latest capabilities rolled out to current COTS products integrated into the analytics system architecture, such as Snowflake and Databricks.
  • Creating comprehensive documentation to support complex system integration.  
  • Assisting in operationalizing AI/ML workflows into production.
  • Communicating platform changes and escalating platform issues as they arise.
Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience, Master's degree with 0 years of experience or High School with a total of 6 years of experience
  • Demonstrated experience manipulating dataframes using SQL and programing in Python and R
  • Experience with MLFlow for integrated model governance into the model development lifecycle
  • Software development lifecycle (SDLC) fundamentals and experience with GitHub
  • Team player - strong desire to work in a collaborative environment
  • Excellent communication skills to support internal development team and external stakeholders
  • Ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance
  • US citizenship is required

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with components of Databricks’ E2 Platform (Unity Catalog and Feature Store)
  • API development experience or experience utilizing Databricks REST APIs
  • Advanced Spark architecture knowledge experience
  • Development with scripting languages, such as Python or bash, to support automated CI/CD processes
  • Experience integrating large scale analytics components to support model development
  • Experience in healthcare industry analytics and data, preferably Medicare or Medicaid
SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO: Peraton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristic protected by law.

Employee Benefits

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.