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# Computer Scientist - Senior

- **Company:** Invictus Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Engineering, Data Compression, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Information Sciences, Data Intelligence, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Devsecops, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** September 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88387098/1

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree preferred, with eight (8) years of relevant experience
 * Current active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
 * Advanced proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, and software paradigms.
 * Expertise in distributed systems design, cloud-native architectures, and microservices.
 * Experience leading software development teams or managing complex system development efforts.
 * Proficiency with DevSecOps practices and end-to-end CI/CD pipeline management.
 * Experience optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability.
 * Deep understanding of DOD and federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks.
 * Demonstrated ability to translate complex intelligence requirements into technical capabilities.
 * Experience mentoring junior developers and providing technical direction.

## 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 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.
 * Develops and utilizes machine learning and data mining and 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. Employs exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.
 * Prepares products to describe and document findings and activities.


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