What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at SAIC?
Job ID 2511706
Location ROCK ISLAND, IL, US
Date Posted 2025-11-19
Category Information Technology
Subcategory Data Scientist
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Travel No
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Data Scientist located at Rock Island Arsenal, IL to support our Operational Data Team utilizing the Army Vantage Data Analytics System to build/implement models, use/create algorithms, and create/run simulations.
Job Description
REQUIRED EDUCATION
Location ROCK ISLAND, IL, US
Date Posted 2025-11-19
Category Information Technology
Subcategory Data Scientist
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Travel No
Minimum Clearance Required None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Secret
Potential for Remote Work No
Description
SAIC is seeking a Data Scientist located at Rock Island Arsenal, IL to support our Operational Data Team utilizing the Army Vantage Data Analytics System to build/implement models, use/create algorithms, and create/run simulations.
Job Description
- Lead and mentor more junior data scientists in support of a larger data science roadmap
- Conduct analysis of mission data applicable in multiple domains
- Formulate and interpret problems in mathematical or computational terms
- Design, develop, use, and evaluate mathematical models, methods, and algorithm application to explore concepts and solve problems for the customer
- Develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software algorithms (e.g. processing-intensive analytics, novel process development, manipulation of large data sets)
- Research analysis products and tools for possible integration to enhance Analytics and AI offerings
- Create new tools and applications using a variety of software languages, frameworks, and libraries
- Improve, support, and test a MLOps framework to support other team member’s analysis work
- Refine and enhance existing applications to better meet the customer’s mission
- Code, test, and maintain internally developed mathematical software tools
REQUIRED EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree five (5) years of relevant experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and zero (0) years experience; additional four (4) years of experience accepted in lieu of degree
- Relational database expertise in database storage, SQL queries, and primary/foreign keys
- Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C/C , Java, and/or JavaScript
- Demonstrated on-the-job knowledge of providing data analytics solutions
- Hands-on experience creating algorithms and engineering tools for data processing and modeling and simulation
- Practical understanding in machine learning deployment with a focus on optimization, including theoretical and numerical methods for refinement of models
- Capability to distill complex problems into digestible structures/formats
- Must be able to obtain a full Secret Clearance
Salary : $120,001 - $160,000
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