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# Data Scientist in Fairfax

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Architecture, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Relational Databases, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), NLTK (NLP Analysis), Tensorflow, Tableau (Software), Social Network Analysis, Matplotlib, HuggingFace, Plotly, Spacy, Unsupervised Learning
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/data-scientist-fairfax-31327462

## About the Role

* Must have TS/SCI with Polygraph.
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 * BS degree and 8 - 12 years relevant technical experience or Master's with 6 - 10 years of relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
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 * Experience with Python is required.
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 * Social network analysis (SNA) experience
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 * Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases and APIs for data extraction is required.
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 * Experience with supervised and unsupervised learning and natural processing (NLP) is required. Familiarity with NLP libraries and tools (e.g., spaCy, Hugging Face, NLTK, or TensorFlow).
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 * Experience with frequentist statistics, probability, and predictive modeling, along with knowledge of computer science concepts, data architecture, and statistical methods.
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 * Proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn, Matplotlib) is required.
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