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# Data Scientist (Annapolis Junction, MD)

- **Company:** Shield Consulting Solutions
- **Location:** Cape Saint Claire, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $200,000 - $250,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Data Mining, Data Visualization, R (Programming Language), Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Machine Learning, Raw Data, SAS (Software), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Data Analytics
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/16a61a38-bd98-4239-8e4c-5ced44a8ca41

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline (e.g., statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering or computer science) and five (5) years of experience analyzing datasets and developing analytics as well as five (5) years of experience programming with data analysis software such as R, Python, SAS, or MATLAB.
 * An additional four (4) years of experience in software development, cloud development, analyzing datasets, or developing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics can be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
 * A PhD from an accredited college or university in a quantitative discipline can be substituted for four (4) years of experience.
 * Produce data visualizations that provide insight into dataset structure and meaning
 * Work with subject matters experts (SMEs) to identify important information in raw data and develop scripts that extract this information from a variety of data formats (e.g., SQL tables, structured metadata, network logs)

## Description

* Incorporate SME input into feature vectors suitable for analytic development and testing
 * Develop Al and machine learning models to address complex problems.
 * Develop and optimize Large Language Models (LLM) for various NLP tasks and information retrieval
 * Experience with utilizing GPU-based computing resources to accelerate model training and deployment.
 * Develop and implement statistical, machine learning, and heuristic techniques to create descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics
 * Develop statistical tests to make data-driven recommendations and decisions
 * Develop experiments to collect data or models to simulate data when required data are unavailable
 * Develop feature vectors for input into machine learning algorithms
 * Identify the most appropriate algorithm for a given dataset and tune input and model parameters
 * Evaluate and validate the performance of analytics using standard techniques and metrics (e.g. cross validation, ROC curves, confusion matrices)
 * Oversee the development of individual analytic efforts and guide team in analytic development process, * A data scientist will develop machine learning, data mining, statistical and graph-based algorithms to analyze and make sense of datasets; prototype or consider several algorithms and decide upon final model based on suitable performance metrics; build models or develop experiments to generate data when training or example datasets are unavailable; generate reports and visualizations that summarize datasets and provide data-driven insights to customers; partner with subject matter experts to translate manual data analysis into automated analytics; implement prototype algorithms within production frameworks for integration into analyst workflows.