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Data Scientist

SilverEdge
Reston, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 10/6/2025 CLOSED ON 12/16/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at SilverEdge?

Overview

SilverEdge is a premier provider of innovative cyber, software, and intelligence solutions, addressing mission-critical challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and beyond. We are dedicated to delivering impactful results to meet mission goals through cutting-edge technology and expertise. We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our dynamic team. This individual will play a pivotal role in developing innovative and effective solutions for our DoD customers within the IC sector.

 

On our team, you’ll use your leadership skills and data science expertise to create real-world impact. You’ll work closely with clients to understand their questions and needs, and then dig into their data-rich environments to find the pieces of their information puzzle. You’ll guide teammates and lead the development of algorithms and systems. You’ll use the right combination of tools and frameworks to turn sets of disparate data points into objective answers to advise your clients as they make informed decisions. Ultimately, you’ll provide a deep understanding of the data, what it all means, and how it can be used.  

 

Required Qualifications

  • 3 years of experience in applied data science or ML roles, including using Python and NLP and LLM implementation
  • 3 years of experience with data exploration, data cleaning, data analysis, data visualization, or data mining 
  • Experience with production-level systems, data lake environments, and streaming data, including Kafka
  • Experience implementing end-to-end ML workflows from data prep to deployment and evaluation
  • Ability to quickly learn infrastructure or systems concepts, including how pipelines interface with data lakes
  • Ability to design, implement, and iterate on ML models for document classification, extraction, summarization, and search
  • Ability to take ownership of data science workflows that interact with a production system streaming millions of documents per week
  • TS/SCI clearance
  • Bachelor's degree

Additional Qualifications:

  • Experience in collaborating with MLOps and infrastructure engineers to ensure robust model deployment, monitoring, and retraining pipelines
  • Experience supporting platform components such as documents indexing or search, GPU workloads, and distributed storage, including Cloudera
  • Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging R, Python, SQL, or NoSQL 
  • Experience with Distributed data or computing tools, including MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL  
  • Experience with visualization packages, including Plotly, Seaborn, or ggplot2 
  • Security Certification

About SilverEdge

SilverEdge Government Solutions was founded on the belief that nurturing talent and collaborating closely with our customers enables us to think big and deliver the best for our country. Our mission is to bring top technology talent together to solve the world’s most challenging problems while protecting the United States and our allies. SilverEdge Government Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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