Data Scientist

About the Organization

Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We’re looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets.

About the Role

Redhorse Corporation is seeking a Data Scientist to support Condition-Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) initiatives, leveraging AI/ML to enhance aircraft sustainment and optimize maintenance efficiency. The data scientist will help develop predictive maintenance and logistics forecasting models to support the development of decision-making tools for program-wide initiatives for all USAF RSO stakeholders. This role also includes working within mixed and multi-functional teams in an Agile development environment. Most importantly, we are working in a quickly changing environment, so we are hiring creative, motivated, and talented people with a passion for doing what’s right and what’s smart while building a solution that works.

Key Responsibilities

• Support program initiatives from inception to deployment, ensuring alignment with CBM+ business and mission objectives.
• Oversee data collection & processing, including implementation/sustainment of ETL pipelines, as well as cleaning and preprocess datasets for usage.
• Perform EDA, to include, performing statistical analysis and visualization to understand data patterns, identifying correlations, trends, and insights to drive product development.
• Lead ML model development using regression, classification, clustering, & deep learning while optimizing models for accuracy, performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with a multi-functional team to integrate models into applications or APIs.
• Continuously monitor deployed models for performance drift and degradation.

Required Qualifications

• US citizen with a Secret US government clearance. Applicants who are not US Citizens and who do not have a current active Secret security clearance will not be considered for this role.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or proven equivalent professional experience.
• 4 years of experience including applied NLP, data labeling, entity or keyword extraction, and related topics.
• Understanding and use of various statistical distributions and use for data modeling.
• Ability to foster positive business relationships.
• Strong communication skills capable of presenting technical findings to diverse audiences.
• Must be a motivated self-starter who can take direction and execute without constant monitoring.
• Experience with Databricks, PySpark, SQL, model engineering / ML Ops, and associated documentation/formatting.
• Experience working with office productivity software, such as Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and file sharing applications.
• Able to travel, as needed, to meet with government customers and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in STEM field, ideally Data Science.
• Advanced understanding of AI/ML applications in predictive maintenance/logistics.
• Experience with sensor-based failure predictions and modeling.
• Experience with Monte-Carlo simulation and calculation of confidence levels.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Accommodations:

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Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse’s changing needs.

This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse’s sole discretion.