812273 Data Scientist $270,000.00

About the Role

• Position Title: Data Scientist
• Position Level: Level 1 – Subject Matter Expert
• Salary: Up to $270,000.00 per year
• Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
• Location: McLean VA
• Clearance Requirement: Top Secret (TS/SCI) with a Polygraph

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrated experience tuning neural networks, such as LLMs, on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience developing models and ensembles in the AI/ML space, including selecting the best Python libraries for a given task, choosing appropriate pre-processing actions, performing analysis, and assessing model performance.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience using Python or R.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with SQL to include using common table expressions, set operations, aggregated functions and nested subqueries.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with version control systems such as Github and Jenkins.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing.
• Demonstrated professional experience or academic experience in testing, evaluating, or validating the performance of AI systems (with a focus on LLM-based systems).
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience in experiment design and execution to test the performance of LLMs against a benchmark.

Optional Requirements

• Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience in the development of benchmarks to measure LLM performance.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
• Demonstrated experience creating machine learning models that conduct text classification and topic modeling in Python using standard machine learning (SciKit Learn) or deep learning models.
• Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
• Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.
• Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
• Demonstrated experience with verification and validation test benches.
• Demonstrated experience with Explainable AI (XAI) techniques.
• Demonstrated experience with ONNX (Open Neural Net Exchange).

Mandatory Requirements (Experience Levels)

• Developmental: 0-2 years’ experience
• Full Performance: 3-5 years’ experience
• Senior: 6-10 years’ experience
• Expert: 11-15 years’ experience
• SME: 16+ years’ experience

B4Corp Company Information

• B4Corp is a small defense contracting company focused on supporting the United States intelligence community and other defense organizations.
• B4Corp offers a low overhead, high salary environment.
• B4Corp seeks IT professionals with a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

Compensation & Benefits

• Outstanding Salaries
• Retirement: Full Vanguard 401k Plan (100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary)
• Employee Stock: B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)
• Insurance:
• Medical – United Health Care (UHC)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Short-term disability (Mutual of Omaha)
• Long-term disability (Mutual of Omaha)
• Life insurance ($200,000.00) (Mutual of Omaha)
• Employee Referral Bonus: $3,000 per year per referred employee.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays).
• Work Schedule: Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval).