Junior Data Scientist

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next.  Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

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This position requires the ability to obtain a CBP/DHS suitability clearance.

Vantor is currently seeking a Data Scientist to contribute to the development of statistical and machine learning models to support our FALCON effort. This role can be performed remotely within the continental United States. The ideal candidate will derive these models to detect kinematic behaviors leveraging live and historical data.  Using these models, the candidate will develop and run simulations to inform the development team on approaches to incorporate analytics into the system.  This is an exciting opportunity to discover and apply data science techniques to solve unique and evolving problems. 

As a Vantor team member, you will have the opportunity to closely support our mission partners, and your work will have a direct impact on building mission-focused software capabilities that support operational awareness, data-driven analysis, and timely decision-making. In this role, you will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, and customer stakeholders to build, enhance, and sustain applications and data pipelines that help transform complex data into actionable insight.

About Us:

• We are a multi-disciplinary software development and data-focused team supporting mission partners through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and operationally relevant technical solutions.
• Our diverse background of experience in mission support, software engineering, and applied data science serves as a catalyst to solve unique and challenging intelligence problems in support of operational users and their on-going activities.
• Prototyping and frequent, iterative feedback are core to our delivery approach, anchored by a need to ensure accuracy, reliability, and timeliness in support of our customer’s mission.
• Culture matters! The FALCON team values clear communication, ownership, technical curiosity, and the ability to contribute ideas without ego while fostering each other’s growth through feedback and flexibility.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Contributing to the continued research, development, and sustainment of mission-focused software applications, backend services, APIs, data processing workflows, and analytical capabilities. You will support engineers and mission partners by creating and/or refining software applications, maintaining and enhancing existing custom applications, troubleshooting defects, improving performance, contributing to code reviews and technical documentation, and helping deliver reliable capabilities in an agile, remote-first environment.

Responsibilities:

• Assist team in designing analytic solutions that meet customer needs
• Enhance existing analytic solutions to ensure quality and performance
• Integrate Data from multiple sources to create a common operating picture
• Select and implement appropriate statistical analyses and scoring metrics to evaluate performance of existing algorithms
• Create training and test datasets from multiple sources to enhance existing algorithms
• Perform data processing activities such as data cleansing and validating as well as other Extract Transform Load (ETL) functions
• Derive and produce Analytic Reports and Presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Identify and implement data visualization for analysis, presentation, and end-user UI needs
• Perform feature engineering, classifier optimization, event forecasting, and anomaly detection
• Interface with external stakeholders to decompose data science mission needs
• Produce data science processes, results, and approach documentation
• Select and implement industry machine learning algorithms to enhance or compete with existing algorithms

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a US citizen
• Ability to obtain CBP/DHS suitability
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or other related discipline (4 additional years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. A master’s degree may count as 2 years of experience.).
• Working knowledge with one or more scripting programming languages such as Python and libraries such as pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, scipy
• Must be willing to work in a remote setting or nearby Vantor facility and comfortable communicating via video calls.
• Experience in processing, cleaning or analyzing time series and/or geospatial data
• Familiarity in machine learning techniques used with time series and/or geospatial data
• Strong statistical background in areas such as statistical testing, regression, and probability
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Familiarity with database / data file systems such as PostgreSQL, HDFS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current Top Secret security clearance and/or CBP/DHS suitability
• Ability to understand and integrate new machine learning algorithms and technologies
• Working knowledge of agile software development practices and tools, such as Jira, Confluence, and git
• Professional experience working with spatiotemporal data
• Understanding of scoring and measuring algorithm performance
• Data Visualization of multi-source, multi-dimensional data, and analytic results
• Experience conducting model feasibility research and algorithm development for machine learning
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Wide breadth experience with machine learning algorithms and approaches
• Current knowledge of the latest industry trends; Ability to articulate trends and their potential clearly and confidently
• Experience with Deep Learning technologies (Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow)

Pay Transparency: In support of pay transparency at Vantor, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings.  The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

The base pay for this position within California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and for all other states is:

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers

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