Data Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Data Engineer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Tysons Corner, VA.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROJECT

The DarkStar Group's team is charged with taking commercial and academic innovation high-side, in domains of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI / ML) such as Computer Vision (Image and Video Processing), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Audio Modeling.  We also bring the best ideas, tools, and approaches in technology infrastructure (AWS, DevOps, etc.) to the IC.  The tech stack used is extremely broad - anything cutting edge in the commercial market, the open source community, or the academic research community is likely involved: and if something isn't being looked at yet, you can make that happen.

This effort supports ALL missions of the Intelligence Community, including cyber-related data science missions.  A seamless group of contractor and customer personnel work to create innovations that supply customer groups with the data sets, models, algorithms, software, and infrastructure they need to increase their mission success.  Management is hands off, gives the team the freedom to explore new approaches, and markets the best ideas and results to all the other IC customers.  

This project regularly needs various types of people - Data Scientists, Data / ETL Engineers, Analytic Software Engineers, Full Stack Developers, UI/UX Developers, and AWS/DevOps experts.  We're particularly interested in people with any of the following experience:

• developing AI / ML models (neural networks, tree based algorithms, etc.);
• conducting data analysis in the fields of Computer Vision, NLP, or audio signal processing;
• doing data ingest and ETL into sponsor environments; or
• building data-analytic software systems.

Work on this program takes place throughout the Reston/Herndon/Chantilly, VA area (we cannot support remote work) and requires a TS/SCI Poly clearance (acceptable to this customer).

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Information Systems) or equivalent relevant experience.
• 3 years of experience designing and developing databases and other applications on classified IC networks.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing large scale data flow and conditioning technologies (Hadoop, Elastic Map-Reduce, Snowflake, Apache NiFi, etc.) to build production datasets for analytics purposes.
• Demonstrated experience with developing custom scripts, procedures, queries, and user interfaces for SQL databases on classified IC networks.
• Demonstrated experience developing and communicating technical specifications of databases to technical and non-technical audiences, including entity relationship diagrams, data schemas, and data systems architecture.
• Demonstrated knowledge of available IC cloud systems and services on classified networks, preferably for those services available on the Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) program.
• Experience developing and maintaining interfaces between data resources (databases, data lakes, etc.) and analytics software applications (Tableau, PowerBI, Kibana, Grafana, etc.)

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Experience developing and communicating metrics in the IC, specifically on (a) how IC collection and analytic products are aligned to intelligence needs and questions; (b) the IC’s responsiveness to requirement and changes in intelligence priorities; (c) IC’s reliance on the variety of intelligence collection disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience designing, testing, and managing software tools to 30 support data monitoring and analytics production on large, aggregated datasets.
• Experience developing and deploying APIs for secure application access to data stores.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.