Data Scientist

AVIAN LLC•, VA

30d•Onsite

About The Position

Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, represents a fusion of innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. As a Virginia-based small business with over 150 years of collective experience, we pride ourselves on providing industry-leading expertise, big data analytics, and all-source research and analysis. Our technical capabilities directly bolster our customers' objectives, from mission centers to forward-deployed operations. In 2021, we joined forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned business and one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. With a shared commitment to resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reachability, we continue to uphold our trademark dependability and innovation, delivering exceptional services to our 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. Beyond our technical and consulting prowess, we at Level Up believe in creating a positive impact within our communities. Through our charitable giving and volunteer programs, we support causes close to our hearts and inspire meaningful change. This commitment to service and community enhancement is what we call "The Level Up Way". Together, Level Up and AVIAN offer comprehensive solutions, blending technology and community engagement to create an exceptional partnership for our employees, customers, and community.

Requirements

Thorough knowledge of appropriate analytic tools and methodologies in one or more of the following: Applied mathematics (e.g. probability and statistics, formal modeling, computational social sciences); Computer programming (e.g. programming languages, math/statistics packages, computer science, machine learning, scientific computing)
Ability to code or script in one or more general programming language
Experience with, and understanding of, algorithms for classification, regression, clustering, and anomaly detection
Knowledge of relational databases, including SQL and large-scale distributed systems (e.g. Hadoop)
Expertise with statistical data analysis (e.g. linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods)
Demonstrated effectiveness in collecting information and accurately representing/visualizing it to non-technical third parties
U.S. Citizenship is required
TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph required

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a mission environment and/or with many different types of data
Familiarity with building MVP/Prototype data engineering pipelines to support novel analytics
Experience in signature development, threat hunting, and/or threat modeling
Background in computer network operations, particularly network defense and/or exploitation

Responsibilities

Working with large, complex, and disparate data sets
Designing and implementing innovative ways to analyze and exploit the Sponsor’s data holdings
Researching and reporting on a wide variety of Sponsor inquiries
Raising proactive inquiries to the Sponsor based on observations and proposed data analysis/exploitation
Solving difficult, non-routine problems by applying advanced analytical methodologies, and improving analytic methodologies
Developing custom searches
Participating in threat hunting and/or developing advanced, novel detection mechanisms to counter malicious actors