Senior Data Scientist
On-site Location: Washington, DC
Home office: Arlington, VA
Clearance Required: TS/SCI

People Centered. Data Driven

Elder Research Inc. is a Data Science consulting firm specialized in providing analytic solutions
to clients in Commercial and Government industries. Providing analytic solutions to hundreds of
companies across numerous industries, our team enjoys a great variety in the type of work they
do and exposure to a wide range of techniques and tools
We are trusted advisors to our clients, building lasting relationships and partnering as preferred
analytics providers. We use a variety of programming languages and tools to create analytic
solutions, often fitting within our clients’ environment and needs.
Join our team and find great opportunities to hone your analytic skills, work on complex
problems with amazing teammates, and gain valuable analytics consulting experience.
Summary of Position
As a Data Scientist, you will work directly with Department of Homeland Security managers,
product owners, and technical staff to understand business needs, develop technical plans, and
deliver data-driven analytical solutions that solve client problems. You will primarily create and
deploy predictive models from a wide variety of data sources and types using the latest
mathematical and statistical methods.

Required Degree and Experience:

• Bachelor Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., statistics, mathematics, operations research, engineering or computer science) + 7 years of experience.
• Masters Degree + 5 years of experience
• PhD + 2 years of experience

Essential Functions:

• Exploration, cleaning, and wrangling to understand available data
• Meetings and discussions with clients and co-workers to refine understanding of the business problem at hand
• Trying different predictive modeling approaches to identify the best fit for a given set of business understanding, available data, and project timeline
• Writing re-usable code in R, Python, Java, Scala, SQL, or other languages, and working to refine it through code review and discussion
• Applying statistics to understand the significance of different attributes
• Preparing presentations, writing reports, and working to communicate technical results to clients with varying levels of analytic sophistication
• Ability to work independently in a collaborative, dynamic, cross-functional environment

Required Skills:

• Proficiency with unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised learning algorithms and technologies.
• Proficient with one of more of the following programming languages (Java, C++, Python, R)
• Proficient with SQL; strong understanding of relational databases
• Demonstrated experience applying data science methods to real-world problems.
• Knowledge and experience in data wrangling, advanced statistical data analysis and modeling
• Capable of communicating complex models and concepts in non-technical language
• Comfortable learning new things and working outside of your comfort zone
• Proficient in data science lifecycle methodologies such as CRISP-DM and TDSP

Desired Skills:

• Domain expertise: insider threat, intelligence data sources (HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, and OSINT)
• Experience working with some of the following technologies: AWS, Azure, Solr, NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, HBase, Cassandra, Accumulo, Neo4j, etc.), Caffe/TensorFlow/Keras/etc, Hadoop, Spark, Pig

About Elder Research, Inc.
Elder Research is a growing consulting firm specializing in data (analytics, data science, AI and
machine learning), and related strategy and training. Our organization has over 25 years of
experience and 100+ practitioners that have partnered with hundreds of organizations to
achieve significant value through innovative applications of data, analytics, and people-
centered processes.
? We are tackling hard problems, big and small, where off-the-shelf solutions don’t work
or don’t exist. To achieve success, we value humble, hardworking teammates with the
ability to be flexible, think critically and experiment.
At Elder Research, you’ll be part of a fun, friendly, and supportive community where we need
each other to succeed, your point of view matters, and asking questions with a beginner’s
mindset is applauded. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates that are
self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work ethic. We are constantly learning
and offer teammates free access to a wide range of learning opportunities including Elder’s
own platform statistics.com and technical mentors or sponsors. Broadening and deepening
your technical and consulting skills both on the job and off is something we are passionate
about, and we pay you to do it.
To achieve success on defense, intelligence, and security work we frequently bring together the
expertise of decision-makers, analysts, agents, investigators, and even behavioral scientists. Our

team enjoys great variety in the type of work they do and exposure to a wide range of analytic
techniques and tools.
Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability.