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 Data Scientist to develop performance metrics, analyze mission data, automate workflows, and create actionable visualizations
- The successful candidate will use Python-based analytics and data-science tools to identify technical gaps, measure system performance, and improve existing organizational processes
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, and maintain data ontologies and dictionaries
- Establish systematic interdivisional metrics and performance measurements
- Perform data analysis using Python, Jupyter notebooks, Pandas, and related tools
- Develop data visualizations, reports, and dashboards
- Identify access, technical, and data gaps and recommend data-driven improvements
- Automate analytical and reporting workflows
- Develop or use APIs and tools to retrieve, transform, and analyze mission data
- Present analytical results and technical findings to Government and mission stakeholders
Required Qualifications
- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Master’s degree with 9 years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree with 11 years of relevant experience, Associate's degree with 13 years of in-depth relevant experience that is clearly related to the position
- Strong Python experience
- Proficiency with Jupyter notebooks and Pandas DataFrames
- Experience developing metrics and analyzing large or complex datasets
- Experience interacting with APIs and building or using data-retrieval tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Shapely, Plotly, Tableau, Power BI, or Matplotlib
- Experience with Splunk or Kibana
- Experience with SQL, Java, C++, HTML, or Bootstrap
- Experience with SIGINT data collection or analysis
- Experience with SIGINT data standards, including 450/451
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.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Master's degree with 9 years relevant experience OR Bachelor's degree with 11 years OR Associate's degree with 13 years relevant experience
- Strong Python experience
- Proficiency with Jupyter notebooks and Pandas DataFrames
- Experience developing metrics and analyzing large or complex datasets
- Experience interacting with APIs and building or using data-retrieval tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Shapely, Plotly, Tableau, Power BI, or Matplotlib
- Experience with Splunk or Kibana
- Experience with SQL, Java, C++, HTML, or Bootstrap
- Experience with SIGINT data collection or analysis
- Experience with SIGINT data standards, including 450/451
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.
