Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee-centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full-scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry-leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence. Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long-term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.
Job Summary
- Seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Data Scientist
- The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and statistical skills, a deep understanding of machine learning and data modeling, and the ability to extract meaningful insights from complex data sets to support business objectives
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform data curation, analytic development, data visualizations, and statistical analysis
- Design, develop, and implement statistical models and machine learning algorithms
- Analyze large structured and unstructured datasets from various sources to uncover trends and patterns
- Communicate findings clearly through dashboards, visualizations, and reports
- Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, product, and business teams to translate data into actionable insights
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Bachelor’s Degree with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position
- Experience leveraging AI/ML techniques for optimization, automation, and collection processing
- Proficiency with API interaction; reading/using/building tools to retrieve data
- Experience with Pandas Data frame and aggregation using Python
- XKS/DX proficiency and understanding of dataflow
- A SIGINT background is a strong foundation for this role
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with:
- SIGINT data collection
- Data Visualization capabilities with Plotly, Shapely, and GeoPandas
- Splunk, SQL, Elastic, Kibana, or Networking
- Front end web development using bootstrap (HTML) or Pyodide
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
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What We Do
Momentum Engineering understands that our customer's unique missions require innovative software solutions and data-driven engineering methodologies. These approaches leverage DevOps principles and cloud-based automation ensuring that applications and systems can be characterized and reliably measured. Our specialists, working as trusted partners to our customers, have been developing, integrating and maintaining data-centric solutions since our founding in February 2015. Momentum Engineering provides highly-skilled System Engineers, Software Engineers, and formally trained Department of Defense Test and Evaluation Subject Matter Experts to our customers to help them move their missions forward.
