Our client is an award-winning consulting firm and IT solutions provider that focuses on Analytics, Data Science, and Business Intelligence. They are headquartered in Washington, DC and support public sector health, civilian, and national security organizations. Most of their projects are mostly or entirely remote and ALL of their work is done outside of a SCIF.  They are seeking a Data Scientist to support long term federal client engagements projects in the DC Metro area.  The role will apply statistical programming, modeling, visualization techniques, data mining, and forecasting skills to analyze challenging public sector problems. 

Qualified Data Scientist should have the below skills: 

-Master's degree required, and PhD preferred in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar
-High degree of experience utilizing SAS, R, or Python to support NLP use cases
-4 of experience developing scalable, production-ready NLP solutions using sci-kit learn, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark NLP
-Experience using git/github to version control source code
-Experience working in an AWS cloud environment and with related AWS services such as Bedrock and Textract
-Experience with BERT, GPT-J, RoBERTa, T5 or other transformers

This role is fully remote; no onsite or travel necessary. Candidates must be a US Citizen with an active Public Trust or Secret level government clearance. Salary for this role is up to $150k for qualified candidates.