Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, Amazon RDS, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS, AWS Sagemaker, Azure, ChatGPT, Cloud computing, Data science techniques, DynamoDB, HuggingFace, Machine learning techniques, matplotlib, MLOps tools, NumPy, Pandas, plotly, Python Programming, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, SQL, Tableau, TensorFlow

Job Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Aeronautics Systems sector is seeking a Data Scientist / Principal Data Scientist to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be in Palmdale, CA where technology and teamwork come together.

Creates data mining architectures/models/protocols, statistical reporting, and data analysis methodologies to identify trends in large data sets. Analysis may have many applications such as to address a business issue or provide a competitive advantage for the organization. Requires strong statistical and data visualization skills.

Data Scientist Basic Qualifications:

• 2 years’ experience with Bachelors in Science; 0 Years with Masters. 
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, Flask/Django and/or Bootstrap.
• Knowledge of data gathering, cleansing and transformation techniques.
• Familiarity with common data science toolkits such as Python/R.
• Understanding of Agile Software Development.

Principal Data Scientist Basic Qualifications:

• 5 Years with Bachelors in Science; 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, Flask/Django and/or Bootstrap.
• Knowledge of data gathering, cleansing and transformation techniques.
• Familiarity with common data science toolkits such as Python/R.
• Understanding of Agile Software Development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with core Python data science tools (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciKit-Learn, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with deep learning libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
• Experience with anomaly detection and synthetic data strategies for machine learning.
• Knowledge of databases (SQL Server, AWS Databases (DynamoDB, RDS, or similar)) and schema.
• Data engineering skillsets.
• Experience with Generative AI tools and frameworks (Stable Diffusion, GPT, HuggingFace, etc.)
• Experience with computer vision (CNN, Transformer architectures) and image/video data preparation for machine learning.
• Hands-on experience with time series analysis and sequence modeling.
• Experience configuring and extracting data from mixed-reality platforms (HoloLens 2).
• Experience with Cloud environments (Azure, AWS-SageMaker, S3, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with sensor deployments (IoT sensors) and automating data collection and processing in industrial settings.
• Experience with dashboarding frameworks (Plotly Dash, Panel, Streamlit, Tableau, etc.)
• MLOps knowledge and experience executing the full machine learning lifecycle.
• Agile development.

Salary Range: $93,500 USD - $140,300 USD

Salary Range 2: $115,200 USD - $172,800 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.