Research Data Analyst

About the Role

Motivated Research Data Analyst applicants are sought to begin their careers in a beginning research position supporting rapid growth in VTNSI’s Intelligent Systems Division (ISD), which conducts research to address critical areas of national security.

Key Responsibilities

• Performing exploratory data analysis, reporting summary statistics, and visualizing data.
• Performing literature reviews for relevant research areas.
• Designing numerical experiments.
• Training and testing AI/ML models.
• Compiling and summarizing AI/ML model testing results.
• Performing statistical analysis of data and test results.
• Working as part of team-based research efforts.
• Supporting the development of research proposals.
• Developing skills to assist in the documentation and presentation of research results to sponsors and academic communities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• US citizenship
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Familiarity with statistics and AI/ML concepts such as:
• Design of experiments
• Time series analysis
• Anomaly detection
• Natural language processing
• Large scale data infrastructure
• Test and Evaluation (T&E)
• Hands-on experience with tools germane to their research area.

Tools to be utilized:

• Programming (R, Python, Matlab)
• JMP
• Jupyter Notebooks

Qualifications

• An earned Master's or Bachelor's degree in:
• Computer science
• Computational modeling and data analytics
• Data science
• Applied mathematics
• Or related discipline or related programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team in executing research projects.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active security clearance.
• Interest and/or experience working effectively with an interdisciplinary team.
• Experience working in an academic environment.
• Experience executing on research and/or development programs supporting the federal government.