CenCore has an opening for an Applications Developer in Reston VA.

The Sponsor’s Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based tools and data science methodologies provide unique capabilities to detect and evaluate foreign influence in large volumes of open source media. The Sponsor requires technical support to develop and maintain these tools and methodologies. The Sponsor also requires support to develop data-driven products on foreign influence related topics and themes, as well as to create novel methodologies for detecting and evaluating foreign influence in online media.

The Contractor Team shall work closely with the Sponsor’s Senior Methodologist who will manage the team’s priorities.

The Contractor Team shall maintain existing foreign influence evaluation and tracking tools, methodologies, and machine learning models.

The Contractor Team shall make updates to existing evaluation and tracking tools, methodologies, and machine learning models.

The Contractor Team shall maintain a stopgap application to make the Sponsor’s existing foreign influence evaluation and tracking tools, methodologies, and machine learning models immediately available to Sponsor users until capabilities can be integrated into the Sponsor’s enterprise systems.

The Contractor Team shall update the application as necessary to support deployment of Sponsor’s foreign influence evaluation and tracking tools, methodologies, and machine learning models at scale at the enterprise level.

The Contractor Team shall develop new foreign influence evaluation and tracking tools, methodologies, and machine learning models as requested by the Sponsor.

The Contractor Team shall facilitate necessary IT training for application, tool, or model users.

The Contractor Team shall facilitate necessary account renewals for application, tool or model users.

The Contractor Team shall facilitate necessary Assessment and Authorization (A&A) lifecycle processes that are required as part of their work. A&A processes may include (but are not limited to), engaging with the appropriate Sponsor personnel, creating or updating A&A documentation, creating Systems Security Plans, and coordinating system testing with security.

The Contractor Team shall consult with Sponsor officers to gather and document requirements for tools and methodologies.

The Contractor Team shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
• Demonstrated experience coding with Python and Java.
• Demonstrated experience with data visualization.
• Demonstrated experience in data science, particularly natural language processing.
• Demonstrated experience in AWS, including s3, SageMaker notebooks, Lambda, Glue, Identity Management, Beanstalk, and DynamoDB.
• Demonstrated experience in ElasticSearch.
• Demonstrated experience in app development, deployment, and maintenance.

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:

• Demonstrated experience reviewing peer reviewed literature on data science and apply the concepts to mission.
• Demonstrated experience with deep learning packages such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, or FastAI.