What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Scientist position at Haystack?
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The Role
The Role
- Serve as a senior technical contributor and analytic lead on complex, high-impact national security programs.
- Partner with government customers and subject matter experts to define mission problems and analytic objectives.
- Translate ambiguous operational challenges into actionable data science requirements and solution designs.
- Design, develop, and deploy advanced analytics, statistical models, and machine learning solutions.
- Apply various data science techniques including exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, predictive modeling, and algorithm development.
- Integrate structured and unstructured data from diverse sources across classified environments.
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field with 15 years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 18 years of relevant experience.
- Extensive experience applying data science and advanced analytics to complex, mission-focused problems.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and/or R, including advanced data science and machine learning libraries.
- Strong experience working with large, complex datasets from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical efforts and influence analytic direction on large or complex programs.
- Must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- Opportunity to provide technical leadership and advanced analytics expertise on mission-critical national security programs.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, engineers, analysts, and mission stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions.
- Contribute to the definition, design, implementation, and deployment of cutting-edge data science and AI solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior data scientists, contributing to analytic standards and best practices.
Salary : $154,050 - $278,475