Data Scientist – Senior

Colorado Springs, CO Full-Time Senior

www.synaptech-usa.com

Salary Range: $102,161 - $176,109. Final compensation will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to your skills, experience, education, and/or certifications.

Benefits: Synaptech offers one of the best benefits packages in the Colorado Defense Industry. You will receive over 5 weeks of PTO, 5% matching 401K plans with immediate vesting. It’s your money from the first deposit, and there’s no multi-year waiting period! Almost all of our health, dental, vision, long and short-term disability, basic life, health FSA, and dependent care FSA plans are available at NO cost for you and your family. And, if you select the HDHP medical plan that we offer, we’ll even pay you up to an extra $2K per year in your Health Saving Account (HSA). What’s this all mean? More cash in your pocket each and every month!

Location: Synaptech is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Colorado Springs is consistently recognized as one of the best cities to live. This year, US News and World Report ranked Colorado Springs the #2 best places to live in the US. The Springs offer a strong job market, quality schools, and boundless recreational opportunities!

What you will do at Synaptech:

Are you a passionate about Space? How would you like to use your data science skills to help guide US space strategy into the future? We are building a data science team to statistically analyze simulations of satellite communications and space conflict for US Space Command and US Space Force. You will help design the data science team and create a robust analysis pipeline including understanding customer policy questions, programming analyses with Python and Mongo DB, designing models and simulations, and visualizing findings. You will develop dashboards for increasingly complex approaches, and create plans to utilize causal inference, data mining, and machine learning. Come join us as part of an agile and collaborative team of professionals focused on creating the best space simulation and analysis to guide US pace policy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers to understand space policy questions and present analytical answers.
• Research, develop, and test state-of-the-art analytical approaches, including causal inference, data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
• Help create and lead a data science team.
• Collaborate with data scientists to create a data science pipeline, build analytical dashboards, create 3D data visualizations, and report findings to customers.
• Collaborate with software engineers to develop analytic software, design models and simulations, implement modern data architectures and cloud storage.
• Collaborate with operational analysts to answer policy questions, ensure simulation accuracy, and teach statistical analysis skills.
• Actively participate in the agile sprint process.

Must have:

• 5 years experience with Master’s degree, 3 years with PhD
• 2 years of experience in Python development, as a data scientist or software developer
• Graduate degree in a STEM field: 20 credit hours in statistics, 20 credit hours in computer science, or comparable work experience.
• Knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Mining, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence
• Experience working with customers to determine project requirements, especially federal government
• Experience creating presentations of data and analytical findings for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Desire and ability to work collaboratively across disciplines
• Experience collaborating in a flat team environment, and self-directing work
• Flexible to support the dynamic COVID workplace requirements as defined by the federal government and customer work sites
• Must be a U.S citizen.

Nice to have:

• Experience with MongoDB, SysML, and GitHub
• Experience with federal government or military processes
• Experience using Agile and Scrum processes
• Passionate desire to make the joint warfighter world a better place with cost-effective, performant space architectures which enable operations and mission success
• Possess a natural curiosity and desire to challenge yourself and those around you

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Preferred – TS/SCI
• Nice to Have – Secret
• Acceptable – Ability to obtain a security clearance

About Synaptech:

Synaptech was founded by an entrepreneurial leadership team with a strong passion for fundamentally changing the world by protecting the freedom that our nation enjoys, and by creating a better tomorrow for future generations. We specialize in the rapid, innovative, collaborative implementation of highly technical solutions for some of the DoD’s most demanding assessments and missions.

At Synaptech, your personal contributions matter. You are more than a name in an endless sea of developers. Your work will be seen by a wide range of audiences including the U.S. Government, up to the highest levels within the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Executive Branch.

Synaptech is an Equal Opportunity Employer