Data Scientist

BAE Systems is a premier global defense and security company with approximately 90,000 employees delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support and services.

Utilize statistical techniques to analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of data. Automate and optimize data extraction, cleaning, processing and analysis functions. Develop, validate, and implement data models to solve problems / answer questions.
Develop and implement novel statistical approaches to address complex issues. Perform data science/engineering with little guidance and independently write reports detailing methods, results, and impacts to assigned issues.

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years work experience or equivalent experience

Required Skills and Education:

• Master Degree in mathematics, statistics, operations research, engineering, science, or equivalent experience.
• 6 years of experience performing data science/engineering work and writing reports based upon the resulting work/accomplishments.
• Proficiency in statistics packages such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, and R.
• Programming skills sufficient to extract, transform, and clean multi-terabyte databases.
• Significant current experience (i.e. within last 2 years) in data science/engineering work.