Data Scientist

Maxar is looking for a Data Scientist to join a creative, R&D team supporting an Intelligence Community customer. We pioneer new methodologies and tradecraft in computer vision and object detection using various data sources and modeling techniques to solve hard intelligence problems with our customer. Our team enjoys a collaborative atmosphere with a lot of autonomy and a robust technical stack of tools and compute power. If you like to tinker with AI/ML in a flexible and innovative environment, this is an exciting team for you! 

Project: As part of a research and development shop in our customer’s space, we’re identifying, obtaining, and analyzing various data sets using object detection and large language models to provide quantitative analytic techniques to model events, trends, and behavior in support of national security objectives. 

Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor, and/or a mentor, to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress. 

We offer: 

• Dedicated professional development time. 

• Conference attendance. 

• Corporate partner/industry training. 

• Peer groups. 

• Paid certifications. 

• Education reimbursement. 

• Student loan forgiveness. 

• and much more... 

Day-to-day with your colleagues: 

You'll join a skilled team applying cutting edge research in a complex and evolving data environment, develop code to perform complex modeling to detect and characterize objects (using python, tensorflow, pytorch and related software packages) and enhance an evolving analytic tradecraft. You will integrate data from a variety of sources, formats and disciplines into coherent databases, train foundation models to advance the Intelligence Community, fine-tune models to address real intelligence questions, and write compelling documentation and reports for decision makers. 

Our team’s minimum requirements for this position: 

• Current/active TS/SCI security clearance with required Polygraph. 

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer, science, mathematics, statistics, etc.). Relevant professional experience may be substituted for a degree. 

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience. 

• Recent experience with some of the following technologies: 

• Performing complex modeling. 

• Machine Learning/Object Detection/Computer Vision. 

• Python, R or related software packages. 

• Creating code and models. 

If you also had these skills that’d be amazing: 

• Experience with Pytorch, keras  

• Experience with overhead imagery platforms and types