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Job Description:

Autonomous airborne systems are essential for commercial non-profit and national security interests.  The Skyborg System Design project is the Vanguard program managed by Leidos to assist the United States Government in airborne autonomous system design and operations.  The Skyborg System Design Agent (SDA) currently has openings for two Data Scientists to work in our Beavercreek Ohio office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your data science skills and experience to help the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Skyborg mission. In this mission Leidos is developing the Skyborg Autonomy Core System (ACS) and conducting data collection and analysis activities to inform design.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and development of methods processes and systems to consolidate and analyze structured and unstructured diverse and/or large data sets from disparate sources.
• Develop and use advanced statistical concepts algorithms querying and automated processes to clean model integrate and evaluate complex datasets and business problems for practical application.
• Familiarity with the principals of related disciplines such as Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Predictive modeling Statistical Analysis and Hypothesis testing.
• Provide meaningful insight and interpret and communicate findings and recommendations in both narrative and visualization media.
• May develop information tools algorithms dashboards and queries to monitor and improve system performance.
• Maintain awareness of emerging analytics and big-data technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics Computer Science Data Science or related field with 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience working in Agile teams
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R Python SLQ etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
• Experience working with and creating data architectures especially with API-connectivity.
• Experience working with and creating data models to support data science endeavors.
• Ability to obtain DoD security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Government / Military domain experience
• Graduate degree or equivalent certificate in Statistics Computer Science Data Science or related field
• Experience with complex problem formulation and solution paths in a data-rich environment including the leverage of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and other advanced data science methods
• Active DoD Secret security clearance

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology engineering and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense intelligence homeland security civil and health markets. The company’s 40000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston Virginia Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $12.30 billion for the fiscal year ended January 1 2021. For more information visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

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Commitment to Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex race ethnicity age national origin citizenship religion physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information pregnancy family structure marital status ancestry domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.