Associate Data Scientist

Overview

FTI is hiring an associate Data Scientist to support the Naval Safety Command in Norfolk, VA. As a member of the data science team, you will be working with a team of Data Scientists and Software Engineers to support the development, testing, and deployment of a series of advanced predictive analytics models using data sets that will help diagnose and predict precursors to Naval mishaps and safety hazards.

This is a hybrid position with an on-site at the Naval Safety Command Center in Norfolk, VA. A DoD Secret Clearance is required for this position.

Responsibilities

- Support in the designing, calibrating, and testing of a portfolio of predictive risk models to evaluate mishap risk for individual Navy communities.

- Support analytical focus on extracting insights from data to make predictions, understand relations, and identify unusual patterns using approaches like time‑series/forecasting, causal inference, statistical modeling, and anomaly detection

- Support feature engineering, cross-validation, and creation of performance metrics (precision, recall) to minimize error and eliminate overfitting.

- Partner with software engineers and senior data scientists to integrate features and transition analytical models into operational environments.

- Participate in technical exchange meetings and assist in training personnel on model maintenance and interpretation.

Education/Qualifications

Required:

- Active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance

- Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, or a related field.

- 1-2 years of practical data science/analytics experience (or a Master’s degree with substantive applied research/project experience).

- Proficiency in Python or R, or a similar language

- Practical experience with analytical and machine learning toolkits, such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, SciPy, or related packages.

- Foundational understanding of regression analysis, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, and simulation or Bayesian modeling techniques.

Preferred:

- Ability to develop data visualizations and functional dashboards in Qlik, Tableau, or Python-based visualization packages.

- Exposure to Databricks or Apache Spark

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