Data Scientist - TS/SCI

Directors
  • Washington, D.C
  • Permanent
  • Permanent IT
  • SDf12-1579094
  • 12/02/2025
Data Scientist – TS/SCI
DC / NOVA (Remote with SCIF site visits)
220-230k Base Salary + Excellent Benefits

  
Our client, a 100+ staff, Series C Deep Learning SaaS startup is seeking a Data Scientist with TS/SCI Clearance to deliver best-in-class Predictive Maintenance solutions to the Department of Defense.

 
You will be remote first, but will need to be available to travel to SCIFs in and around the DC Metro / NOVA when required.
  
Data Scientist responsibilities:  

  • Develop and deploy models
  • Work directly with DoD data, guiding projects from ideation to implementation
  • Integrate with big data frameworks (Databricks, Spark, etc.) to optimize performance
Data Scientist requirements:  
  • Active TS/SCI security clearance is a pre-requisite for the role
  • Located in DC/Northern Virginia with availability for travel to local SCIFs
  • BS in Computer Science 
  • 3+ years of Python data science stack
  • Experience with time series modeling
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Big data tools (Spark, Dask, Snowpark, Kafka)
  • Task schedulers (Celery, Airflow, Prefect) & web frameworks (Flask, Django)
Data Scientist rewards:  
  • 220-230k base salary
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Professional development
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Remote first working
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