Title: Senior Data Scientist

Location: Remote or Hybrid to Maryland, N. VA, or D.C. Area

Position Type: Full-Time, Non-Contract position (Corporate Position)

Must be willing to submit for a security clearance. U.S. Citizenship is required.

The Opportunity

TeamWorx Security is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to build the next generation of AI products and services! As part of the AI team, you will own design, implementation and deployment of production quality code that forms the core of our applications! TeamWorx Security is looking for a candidate with expertise in NLP (Traditional and Deep Learning) to build services for enterprise customers that help them optimally solve challenging and exciting problems.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent experience) with 2 years of work experience with specialization in NLP
• PHD is preferred
• Proven experience in validation and evaluation of machine learned models
• Strong quantitative and analytical orientation
• Experience in evaluation metrics, Python or R, JSON parsing, custom HTML for visualization
• Strong qualitative skillset with experience in taxonomies and survey design
• Understanding of issues around ground truth and training/evaluation data for ML, including human judgment and A/B testing
• Hands-on experience using third-party judgment services such as Figure 8, Appen, or Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Coding expertise in one or more of Python, Scala, Java or equivalent
• Coding expertise in one or more of Keras, Tensorflow, Pytorch or equivalent
• Expertise in basics of Computer Science, Data Structures and algorithms
• Understanding of probability, statistics and Machine Learning techniques
• Excellent problem solving ability and social skills
• Ability to work in teams
• US citizenship required and must willing to submit for a DoD security clearance

What You'll Do

• Survey and understand prior literature to evaluate and recommend the best approaches for solving problems at hand
• Design and implement groundbreaking algorithms that will build our applications using Machine Learning and Statistical Models
• Write production code at scale, testing and productizing new algorithms
• Collaborate with a team of Data Scientists, Engineers and Product Managers
• Build NLP models to:
  • Enable semantic understanding of documents
  • Improve text classification per given taxonomy
  • Improve keyword extraction from text documents
  • Build and traverse knowledge graphs

What it Takes

We are product focused and love innovation. We look for leadership qualities in all of our teammates. You must be comfortable exploring, learning, and building cool technologies, making mistakes, and learning along the way. You should be comfortable working from multiple locations, with our customers, and in our team environment. You should be self-driven and self-motivated, have attention to detail and a great attitude! You should take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.

A Little About Us and Our Team

We love to be inspired. We started TeamWorx Security to build, create, and dream about what inspires us, and because of this, our Maryland startup is quickly growing. We are a team of data scientists, software engineers, researchers, product developers, and operation-minded folks who specialize in developing applications and products that our customers love. Our mission is to reinvent the way technical and non-technical people work with technology. We believe in creating harmonious, automated solutions designed to improve our customers’ daily workflow, allowing them to act quickly and decisively about what matters most. We are looking for critical thinkers who excel at solving problems and have a passion for what they do to help us move our mission forward. This is our story; come tell us your story.

At TeamWorx Security, Inc., we hold our values as guiding principles in all that we do and encourage our community to embrace and embody them. Our core values are putting our employees first, being curious, being authentic, being scrappy, and honoring those who serve. These values drive our company culture, decision-making, and operations. 

What’s in it for you?No more bullet points for starters. Also, these awesome perks: Comprehensive Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance, Short-Term Disability & Life Insurance, Matching 401(k) Contributions, Paid Time Off including 11 Holidays and your Birthday, Professional Development, Fitness Membership, and Home Office allocations, Performance Bonuses & Profit Sharing, & Employee Referral Bonuses. But wait, there’s more: TeamWorx Security is committed to our teammates and their professional goals. Being a small but growing company affords us the opportunity to work WITH YOU to reach your full potential.Commitment to Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. TeamWorx Security will also consider the employment of qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with relevant laws.