Data Scientist

The Capital Area Division (CAD) of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Data Scientist to work as part of a multidiscipline analytic team that enables comprehensive efforts to counter adversary nuclear, chemical, biological, and delivery system programs and nefarious global proliferation and procurement trends. This candidate will routinely identifies unique and large data sets relevant to broader analytic efforts and devises and executes the exploitation of the data in order to contribute tangibly to all-source analyses. This person will serve as a data science advisor and contributor within a multi-functional team of analysts and planners and supports wide-ranging analytic efforts by processing structured and unstructured data to identify trends, related entities, patterns, and processes. The data scientist will be proficient at eliciting requirements from analytic team members and identifying and characterizing data sets that substantively enhance all-source analyses related to foreign miliary and counterproliferation topics, including but not limited to adversary WMD programs, weapons-related S&T developments, and/or arms transfers.  This position conducts data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions.

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. This position is contingent upon contract award with an anticipated start date in November 2024.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 8 years of experience identifying, processing, exploiting, and disseminating diverse data sets in order to identify trends, related entities, patterns, and processes that enable broad analytic efforts
• Practical understanding of machine learning techniques and advanced statistical modeling techniques.
• Demonstrate current familiarity – experience within the last two years – using data analysis software/applications such as Microsoft Office (Power BI), Tableau, R, Python, SAS, or MATLAB, or other coding platforms to enable all-source analyses.
• Ability to work with subject matter experts to identify information of value within diverse datasets and create tools to process, extract, and disseminate information of value.
• Experience briefing data-driven PED reports and products to intelligence analysts, military planners, operational entities, and research and development audiences.
• Ability to perform statistical analysis, apply data mining techniques, and build high quality prediction systems.
• Experience generating reports, models, and visualizations that characterize datasets and enhance utility of data to all-source analysts.
• Ability to work efficiently with large data multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predictive analytics and experience devising and building ML and AI tools that automate certain processes.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree and/or specialized coursework in data science, statistics, computer science, or related field.
• Familiarity with designing, implementing, and operating data management systems for intelligence needs.
• Ability to work with data users to determine, create, and populate optimal data architectures, structures, and systems.
• Understanding of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, DIA, and Service intelligence production centers.
• Experience collaborating with the Intelligence Community, Defense Department, national labs, and academia to identify, devise, and apply data solutions that address WMD- and proliferation-related threat issues.

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 1200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership fosters greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

Please apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Data Scientist position.

• 8 - 10 years: Relevant work experience

• Bachelors or better in Engineering or related field

• Thought Provoking: Capable of making others think deeply on a subject
• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
• Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
• Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
• Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)