Data Scientist - NLP

Analytica seeks a Data Scientist to support federal client projects in the DC Metro area. The role involves statistical programming, modeling, visualization, and forecasting to solve public sector challenges. This is a fully remote position., * Pre-processing: Collect, clean, and prepare datasets for computational models using Python (e.g., stop word removal, stemming, lemmatization, tokenization).

• Feature Engineering & Attribute Evaluation: Apply NLP feature engineering methods (TF-IDF, word2vec, GloVe, FastText) and select evaluation protocols.
• Modeling: Select and apply classification modeling techniques (ML supervised/unsupervised, regression, neural networks, deep learning, NLP).
• Validation: Investigate, report, and justify model results.
• Visualization: Present modeling results and insights to stakeholders.

• Education: Master's degree required (PhD preferred) in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience: 4+ years developing scalable, production-ready NLP solutions using scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in SAS, R, or Python for NLP (Document Summarization, NER, Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modeling). Experience with Git/GitHub, transformer architecture (BERT, GPT-J, RoBERTa, T5), and open-source NLP packages (Gensim, SpaCy, NLTK).
• Nice-to-have: GenAI/Prompt Engineering, Databricks/MLflow, machine translation (Azure), AWS cloud (Bedrock, Textract), user story coordination.
• Clearance: U.S. citizen; ability to obtain/maintain Public Trust security clearance.

Analytica is a leading consulting and IT solutions provider for public sector organizations (health, civilian, national security). Founded in 2009 (Bethesda, MD), it's an SBA small business recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the top 250 fastest-growing U.S. companies for three consecutive years. The company is SEI CMMI Level 3 appraised, ISO 9001:2008 certified, and an Equal Opportunity Employer.