ME00647-Data Scientist 3

Job Summary

• Seeking a Data Scientist to support a Natural Language Processing project focused on automatically processing spoken and written language data
• The successful candidate will develop automated tokenization and linguistic annotation capabilities and evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop NLP solutions for spoken and written language data
• Develop automated approaches for accurate language tokenization
• Create automated solutions for annotating language data with parts-of-speech information
• Analyze speech and text datasets
• Improve existing NLP models and processing techniques
• Evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations
• Develop quantitative methods for measuring model accuracy and effectiveness
• Document model performance, analytical methods, and recommended improvements

Required Qualifications

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
• Master’s degree with 6 years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Associate's degree with 10 years of in-depth relevant experience that is clearly related to the position
• Experience with Natural Language Processing
• Experience processing text and/or speech data
• Experience developing automated language-processing solutions
• Understanding of tokenization and linguistic annotation concepts
• Experience evaluating model performance
• Strong analytical and software-development skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with parts-of-speech tagging
• Computational linguistics background
• Experience evaluating automated NLP output against human-generated annotations
• Experience working with both speech and text datasets

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.