Northrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, seeking an Associate Data Scientist or a Data Scientist to join their Data Science team in Palmdale, CA. The role involves creating data mining architectures and methodologies to analyze large data sets, driving efficiency through data analytics, and managing projects to meet budget and quality requirements.
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
Experience with data analytics to create and implement data-driven infrastructure to drive efficiency in our organization
Strong project management skills to drive tasks/projects to completion ensuring budget, schedule, and quality requirements are met
Ability to utilize schedule, cost, and performance data to create user-friendly graphics or data visualization (charts, plots, infographics, animations)
Ability to create data handling site on SharePoint for the Tooling Sector and support troubleshooting and edits as required
Assist cost account manager in establishing baselines for cost, schedule, and scope, and track actual performance against those measures
Analyze trends and variances to identify potential risks and issues and recommend corrective actions as needed
Develop, analyze, and maintain estimates to completion and perform monthly budget, EAC, actuals, and Variance Analysis for Leadership briefings
Tracking of weekly actuals against monthly/yearly targets and monthly maintenance of cost analysis reports
Qualification
Required
0 Years experience with Bachelors in Science
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable period of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
Knowledge of data gathering, cleansing, and transformation techniques
Capable of gathering large amounts of data, evaluating and identifying trends
Capable of presenting data via MS PPT, excel, and other Office tools
Familiarity with data evaluation tools such as MS Excel, VBA
Ability to collaborate between self-organizing and cross-functioning teams
Proficient in Microsoft Suite
Intermediate to advanced Excel (Formula, Gantt charts, pivot tables, Slicer)
Strong Communication Skills
Self driven learner
1 year of experience with Bachelors in Science; 0 Years with Masters
Experience with data evaluation tools such as MS Excel, VBA
Capable of using Tableau to evaluate data and present
Proficient in Microsoft Suite
Self driven learner
Preferred
Active U.S. Government Secret clearance
Experience with cost account management
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
Experience configuring and extracting data from numerous data sources and bringing them together
Experience with SharePoint and creating websites via SharePoint
Agile development
Experience with the following Techniques:
Data pipelines using ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
Data visualization and transformation
Version control systems
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Statistical Modeling
Statistical Inference
Predictive Modeling
Benefit
Relocation assistance may be available
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and 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.
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.
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
