SAIC
SAIC

Data Scientist

Upper Marlboro, MD, US • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $80,001.00 - 120,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Art
  • Use Cases
  • Distributed Computing
  • Real-time
  • Data Acquisition
  • Evaluation
  • Analytical Skill
  • Computer Vision
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Science
  • Science
  • Spring Framework
  • C++
  • Golang
  • Java
  • Data Mining
  • Statistics
  • R
  • Python
  • Version Control
  • Git
  • JSON
  • Apache Parquet
  • XML
  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Architecture
  • Database
  • Cloud Computing
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Scripting
  • Management
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Hadoop
  • Databricks
  • Communication
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: T2601352

Location: Upper Marlboro, MD, US

Date Posted: 2026-03-05

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Data Scientist

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description
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Who You Are

You are a quantitative thinker who wants to develop further as both a data scientist and an engineer. You are excited to grow your existing expertise in fields such as statistics and computer science alongside a diverse team of researchers, test designers, and software engineers. You are passionate about maintaining the high scientific and engineering standards required to enable your peers. Above all, you are a curious problem solver who thrives being on the critical path solving complex analytical tasks and building efficient, transparent, data pipelines.

Who We Are

SAIC is looking for a Data Scientist to help the Identity and Data Sciences Laboratory (IDSL) which is tasked with identifying state-of-the-art technologies including facial recognition and AI, evaluating performance, and examining their applicability to existing or emerging customer use cases. The IDSL has a cutting-edge infrastructure consisting of both on-prem distributed computing clusters and cloud based analytic environments, which we use for gathering and processing multi-modal data in real-time from large-scale experiments conducted at our test facility (Maryland Test Facility; , in field locations, as well as from external data sources.

Hybrid - 3 Days in Office / 2 Days Remote

What You Will Be Doing
  • Contribute to data acquisition, management, and processing tasks, working with senior data scientists, software engineers and evaluation designers to build efficient data pipelines
  • Access available infrastructure, and to develop analytic products tailored to mission user requirements
  • Work with senior team members to organize, clean, migrate and process datasets with advanced computer vision algorithms


Qualifications
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Requirements:
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust requiring ship
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or a comparative quantitative science or scheduled to obtain one by spring or summer 2026
  • Proficient in programming (Python, C++, Golang, Java, etc.)
  • Familiar with machine learning, data mining, and/or statistics (R, Python, etc.)
  • Familiar with source control (e.g., Git)
  • Familiar with common data formats (JSON, Parquet, XML, etc.)
  • Familiar with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL)

Desired Skills:
  • Prior experience related to data engineering, data science, data architecture, and databases
  • Understanding of scaling and performance of distributed/cloud systems (AWS)
  • Understanding of data science concepts, AI/ML, automation, and scripting
  • Experience with techniques and platforms to manage, manipulate, and draw insight from large datasets (Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, etc.)
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audience


Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: T2601352
  • Posted 3 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500 mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets include secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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