Senior Trajectory Data Scientist/Data Administrator (ADV0006VO) - ERC

Job Title

Senior Trajectory Data Scientist/Data Administrator (ADV0006VO) - ERC

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Job Type

Full-Time

Location

Johnson Space Center - Houston, TX 77058 US (Primary)

Job Description

For more than 30 years, ERC has been delivering the advantage needed to solve our customers' and the nation's toughest challenges. ERC is a trusted partner to the Defense and Space communities. We provide the advanced engineering, innovative technology, and subject-matter expertise to deliver the mission results our customers need to keep the nation safe and secure. Our unique solutions enhance readiness, optimize performance, and help ensure success in the air, on the ground and in space.

An essential part of our success is our corporate culture built on respect, empowerment, and collaboration. Our culture elevates our people, ensuring they provide best-in-class service and solutions to our customers. We always strive to do the right thing. We believe that are our people are our best asset and human connection our greatest strength.

Our ~2,000 employees work on the most critical missions in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force (USAF), NASA, and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). We provide support for Test and Evaluation (T&E), Modeling & Simulation, Agile Software Development, Systems Engineering, and more. Our teams' current projects range from engineering and logistics support for vital space hardware to platform and weapons modeling, simulation, and engineering.

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Your role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Trajectory Data Scientist/Data Administrator to join our JETS II contract team located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.

What you'll do all day:

• Provide Big Data infrastructure, analysis, pipelines, and interfaces
• Use data analytic tools to perform queries
• Use data visualization platforms to organize and present summarizations, predictive analysis, comparative analysis, dashboards, and reporting
• Provide processing, cleansing, and verification of the integrity of data used for analysis
• Provide data mining and analytics to recognize patterns/trends & investigate anomalies
• Use data analysis to leverage statistical techniques
• Drive efficiency by automation of manual processes, where possible
• Perform other duties as required

You will love this job if you:

• Are a self-starter and require little oversight to complete given tasks
• Enjoy a fast-paced work environment
• Love working with diverse groups of individuals, including engineers and technicians
• Are good at communicating with people
• Have a positive attitude
• Enjoy multitasking

Minimum requirements for this position:

This position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.

• Requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree in Engineering and may be expected to have a related master's degree and normally possess 10-15 years of related experience
• Able to manage data storage of > 10 TB in a logical and accessible manner
• Database Experience (Relational and NoSQL Databases): SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Experience in cloud hosting of data, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Able to perform SQL queries and form digestible reports from > 1 TB dataset
• Experience automating data management using tools like Gitlab CI, Jenkins
• Experience with web apps/tools for end users to interact with stored data
• Excellent understanding of statistical concepts
• Excellent Python development skills
• Ability to write clean, elegant, well-documented, and maintainable production-level code
• Experience in developing, deploying, and supporting models in production
• Experience in model validation
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work with a diverse team consisting of NASA civil servants and contractor employees
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable successful performance on a collaborative engineering team
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and schedules with limited supervision
• Ability to prepare written documents and to verbally present at meetings
• Experience with Microsoft Office products
• U.S. Citizenship is required for all applicants

Desired skills and experience for this position:

• A bachelor's degree in data or computer Science from an ABET accredited school
• Experience with spacecraft trajectory simulations
• Experience with Go, Rust, R
• Experience with source code management tools (Git/GitLab)
• Proficiency in machine learning algorithms
• Proficiency in Linux
• Proficiency in FORTRAN
• Proficiency in graphical tools
• Experience in developing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• Continuing education assistance.
• Professional development allotment.
• Multiple healthcare benefit packages.
• 401K with employer matching.
• Paid time off (PTO) along with federally recognized holiday schedule.