Senior Computer Scientist

Job Title

Senior Computer Scientist

Location

Quantico, VA 22134 US (Primary)

Category

Intelligence

Job Type

Full-Time

Career Level

Staff

Education

Master's Degree

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph



Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Computer Scientist to support a federal government client.

Benefits:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
Security Clearance: Security clearance required TS/SCI with a CI POLY or the ability to obtain one.
Job Requirements

Description: Employs mathematics, statics, information science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, network science, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and / or other scientific techniques to correlate complex, technical findings into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products on trends of existing intelligence data to leverage other IC data sources.
Develop and utilize machine learning and data mining algorithms, including, but not limited to, Multiple Information Model Synthesis Architecture (MIMOSA) prediction algorithms based on open-source capabilities.
Integrates or codes algorithms to support Government intelligence search and discovery missions.
Makes best practice recommendations on managing data within hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth constraints.
Employs data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-source data analytics, wargaming, and strategy development.
Employ exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.
Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.
Possess in-depth knowledge employing data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and / or other scientific techniques to design and develop automated or computer-assisted prototypes or software to derive insight.
Demonstrates documentation and instructions of prototypes to facilitate wide use.
Serve as the primary POC for development expertise, working to streamline repetitive processes, access and integrate disparate data sets, and maintain internal tools for analytic production.
Provide advice on opportunities to advance OCI's advanced analytics program by creating minimum viable products (MVPs) that standardize and export OCI tradecraft.
Creates documentation capturing the function and purpose of MVPs and support transition to internal or external teams that will scale the capability to enterprise applications.
Possess experience working with increasingly large and complex data, working and standing up distributed cluster for advanced analytics, and creating algorithms to clean, process, analyze, and visualize data.
Possess experience with Python, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, and maintaining source code using Git.
Make recommendations to develop MVPs based on mission requirements. Requires TPOC and COR approval.
Supports capability development by contributing, editing, and storing code in Government owned/controlled source version control repositories.
Create, edits, and disseminates, in partnership with other vendors or software developers, capability update briefs capturing outstanding requirements, requested features, bugs, planned development efforts, and priorities for prototypes or MVPs.
Research and designs data, software, and other technical approaches to support all source intelligence analysis and data exploitation.
Design and implement technical solutions that deliver automation, machine augmentation, and tradecraft compliant capabilities.
Delivers technical capabilities that enhance the ability for all source analysts to interrogate increasingly large and complex data sets.
Ensure that at least two computer scientists shall have all the certificates/tickets for 8570 compliances.
Shall have in-depth knowledge of computer science and a deep expertise in its application.
Apply scientific methods and technical tradecraft across the full range of intelligence requirements to support and/or contribute to all-source finished CI assessments or identification of FIE threats.
Shall develop and implements innovative processes to research and evaluate technologies and processes to support all-source Finish CI assessments and to close intelligence gaps.
Evaluate the functionality, effectiveness, and suitability of systems and applications to identify and address shortcomings.
Desired Experience: Desired experience minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
Desired Education: Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the master's degree.
Location: Quantico, VA.

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization's success.