Jr. Data Scientist
$81K-$132K (Glassdoor est.)
MITRE
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deliver on our mission, we need the world’s best talent and
leaders-groundbreakers and partnership-builders on a global scale in areas like
healthcare, artificial intelligence, critical infrastructure resiliency, pandemic management, and cybersecurity.

In return, we have
the privilege of backing you with thousands of technical experts in diverse
fields, a culture of innovation and knowledge
sharing, access to data and resources uniquely available to MITRE through our
wide-ranging partnerships across government, industry and academia.

MITRE
performs leading-edge research and development toward transformational
solutions to our world’s most challenging problems. Our Center for Advanced
Aviation Systems Development is a Federally-Funded Research and Development
Center (FFRDC) established to serve as strategic partners to the federal
government and various aviation groups around the world. Our engineers,
analysts, technical and operational experts team to solve problems in the
public interest that improve the safety and efficiency of the airspace system
in the U.S. and abroad.

The
Aviation Operations, Procedures & Safety division is seeking a highly
qualified engineer to work in one of the following areas: Airspace and
Procedure Design and Analysis; Airport and Airspace Analysis, Modeling and
Design; Performance-Based Navigation Standards and Tools; and Aviation Safety
Analysis. The candidate will work with the FAA and international customers,
leveraging the largest repository of aviation data to improve the capabilities,
safety, and efficiency of the aviation system. Come join a globally recognized
partner and resource for data driven solutions that impact public good.

The candidate
will be responsible for:
Contributing
to various projects applying innovative analysis techniques across multiple
challenging problems in the field of aviation.
Working
closely with other engineers and scientists in the design of exploratory
analyses or simulations pertaining to aviation issues.
Drawing
conclusions from a wide range of aviation system data and articulating key
findings in both written and verbal form.
Developing
data visualization products that simplify presentation of big data
calculations.
Knowledge of programming/scripting languages (eg. Python, MATLAB, R, Perl)
Familiarity with statistical analysis packages (eg. SAS, JMP)
Familiarity with machine learning techniques and algorithm development.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. In-person presentation and writing sample may be requested.
Experience with data visualization software (eg. Tableau, D3)
Knowledge of data processing capabilities (eg. Hadoop, Pig, Spark, SQL). Skill is desired, but not required
Experience working in the aviation domain: airport operation, air traffic control, airlines. Skill is desired, but not required
BS or MS in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics/Statistics Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or other physical science/engineering
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