Data Scientist

Summary

AJANTA CONSULTING, LLC

Telework

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON BID AWARD

The Data Scientist will provide technical and professional support to the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) Aerospace Medicine Consultation Division specifically to support clinical and operational data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Developing, deploying and tuning novel unsupervised tree based clustering machine learning models.
• Accurately describe how several classes of algorithms work.
• Accurately explain exactly how a decision tree works, and be able to code it from scratch.
• Accurately explain the difference between density based and binning based clustering.
• Accurately explain how the k nearest neighbors algorithm works. Candidate must be able to implement the k nearest neighbors algorithm, from scratch, in code. If the candidate can implement the naive version of the nearest neighbors, but not an optimized version, they must be able to accurately describe an optimized version of k nearest neighbors.
• Write an optimized list sorting algorithm, from scratch, in less than an hour, with no external resources.
• Understand how to generate a distance matrix, candidate must be able to demonstrate that they are capable of minimizing the size of a distance matrix in code. Candidate must demonstrate writing vectorized code.
• Obtain HIPAA training upon performance of work.
• Maintain HIPPA standards and prevent data leaks.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in an Applied Quantitative field.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, and Economics Preferred
• Minimum three (3) years of experience deploying predictive analytics.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience with Python and object oriented programming.
• Experience with standard data manipulation tools within Python, Numpy, Pandas etc.
• Experience with standard plotting in Python, Matplotlib
• Experience with Sci-Kit Lean and Pythons open source machine learning software.
• Experience working with software engineers to develop novel dashboards to enable interaction with AI technologies Preferred.
• Experience developing with pre trained language models Preferred.
• Experience with Dimensionality reduction techniques Preferred.
• Experience with Tensorflow, Pytorch or other GPU enabled deep learning libraries Preferred.
• Experience working with USAFSAM Preferred.
• Prior study and familiarity of human biology Preferred.
• Prior study and familiarity of human performance Preferred.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Travel may be required.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
  
  
  

Teleworking Permitted?

Yes

Teleworking Details

100% Remote

Estimated Salary/Wage

USD $78,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $116,000.00/Yr.