OverviewAcuity, Inc. seeks dynamic, self-motivated individuals with experience as a Data Scientist. The Client provides data-driven business analysis to support senior organizational leaders and requires support specializing in natural language processing (NLP) and associated data preparation to help identify challenges and opportunities for the Client’s customers. The Client needs experienced SQL and Python skills to transform the Client’s structured and unstructured data into clear and supported analytic insights to help customers with decision making related to production, resources and personnel. The work may be performed independently or within a team environment.
Responsibilities
What you 'll be doing:
- Shall work closely with the Client’s data scientists and technical team to implement requirements; however, the Client’s GTM will manage the priorities.
- Shall conduct sophisticated analysis using deployed tools and natural language processing.
- Shall analyze large amounts of raw data, including text data, to provide business insights.
- Shall preprocess or clean structured and unstructured Client data, including text data.
- Shall design and implement advanced ETL code and table configurations for complex data sets.
- Shall use Structured Query Language (SQL) in Client’s Oracle database to develop and organize relevant information with supporting analytics.
- Shall independently, or with a team, author analytic publications and produce ad-hoc reports to include data visualizations using the Client’s templates.
- Shall stay current with the Client’s enterprise metadata collection tools.
- Shall implement the Client’s existing coordination process.
- Shall provide technical education to staff on an ad-hoc basis.
- Shall provide subject matter expertise in NLP to support Client’s initiatives.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience performing NLP tasks, 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 NLP packages such as Spacy, Gensim, or NLTK to analyze or process collections of documents.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Keras.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience with the HuggingFace Transformers library and hub.
- 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 academic or professional experience using encoder-decoder and generative language models to perform NLP tasks.
- Demonstrated academic or professional experience communicating methodological choices and model results.
- 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.
- Develop practical approaches for measuring performance.
- Assist in developing types of measure, the collection of data, analyzing the data, and presenting that data to senior leadership.
- Conduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics.
- Assist in selection or development of appropriate methodology to conduct research.
- Analyze information and provide research findings in a manner that is easily grasped by the customer and consumers.
Preferred Skills:
- Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts that pull data from web-based APIs and relational databases.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud computing development and architecture.
- Demonstrated experience with front-end web development frameworks such as Flask.
- Demonstrated experience developing applications for semantic search.
- Demonstrated experience tuning LLMs on custom data sets and applying results to specific use cases.
- Demonstrated professional or academic experience and proficiency with Tableau to produce visualizations and dashboards.
Clearance Requirements:
MinUSD $160,000.00/Yr.
MaxUSD $210,000.00/Yr.
Salary RangeThe salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.
