Agile Defense
Data Engineer
Falls Church, Virginia, USA · full-time
No sponsorship$150k-$175kDetected 39 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLDatabricksAWSAzureDockerCI/CDAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningTensorFlowscikit-learnSparkData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationMLOpsStatisticsAgileCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- You will help shape and deploy data pipelines, pre-processing workflows, feature engineering strategies, and machine learning services within secure, containerized environments.
- The ideal candidate brings a hybrid of statistical modeling fluency and hands-on software engineering expertise.
Responsibilities
- Perform Exploratory Data Analysis and Communicate Insights Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities within structured and unstructured datasets.
- Develop data visualizations and interpretive summaries that support stakeholder understanding and product team decision-making.
- That's why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
- Collaborate Across Teams to Deliver Mission Impact Engage with product managers and mission users to define data and model requirements aligned with operational goals.
- Maintain strong documentation practices that enable handoff, reproducibility, and technical accountability.
- Experience developing ML models from training to deployment using industry-standard tools and libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, XGBoost).
- Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
- Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of data validation, model testing, and performance evaluation techniques.
Nice to have
- This role requires strong technical communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and experience working in agile environments that value reproducibility, testing, and continuous delivery.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks, Palantir, or AWS-native data services is highly preferred.
Skills
- Package model inference services with well-documented APIs for integration into end-user applications and operational dashboards.
Compensation
- $150k-$175k
Company info
- Our Core Values Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental.
- Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots.
- We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do.
- Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
- About Agile Defense At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions.
- It's who we are.
Equal opportunity
- Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses.
- These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment.
- Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
- If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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