Data Scientist

Base-2 Solutions is hiring a Data Scientist for a long-term, mission-focused big data and predictive analytics program supporting national security objectives. This hybrid role is based in Bethesda, MD, with the opportunity to collaborate across data science, engineering, and investigative expertise to design and optimize a Search and Discovery platform.

Why Base-2 Solutions

• Health coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Protection: 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability, long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance up to $200,000.
• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus 4% non-elective contribution (8% total), with pre-tax and Roth options.
• Time off: up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO) and 11 paid floating holidays.
• Flexible work: flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
• Referral bonuses: employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Performance-based bonus opportunities: additional bonuses may be available depending on role and contributions.

What you’ll do

• Partner with a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, software developers, network engineers, senior investigators, program managers, researchers, and data analysts to design, build, and optimize a Search and Discovery platform.
• Perform research to recommend optimal approaches for indexing and organizing data for discovery, and to create reusable agents and tools.
• Support multiple projects at once, independently and collaboratively making mission-relevant discoveries and sharing results with non-technical audiences.
• Identify novel data sources to improve predictive algorithms and encourage adoption of data analytics platforms.
• Apply expertise across research design, exploratory analysis, quantitative methods, and user interface application design with an emphasis on customer engagement.
• Collaborate on the development and deployment of complex algorithms and analytical platforms as part of a hybrid team.
• Participate in co-development and cooperative research to leverage and reuse team products.

Key skills and requirements

• Education: B.S. in a quantitative or analytical field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computational Social Science) or a Master’s degree/equivalent graduate degree, including certificate-based advanced training courses.
• Experience: 4+ years in data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis (or 2+ years if holding a Master’s degree/equivalent).
• Python proficiency.
• Experience deploying data science applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift.
• Experience with information retrieval and search technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch and Kibana) and/or SQL.
• Familiarity with Git and cooperative software development practices.
• Experience working with hybrid teams to conduct research and build analytical platforms.
• Demonstrated active learning and creative problem solving.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers with progressive technical development and mission-focused outcomes.
• Experience constructing and performing evaluations of analytics, including test data construction, test execution, and metrics.
• Experience with agentic software solutions such as Agno, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, or LangGraph.
• Experience working in on-prem, air-gapped environments and/or AWS/C2S.

Technologies you may work with

Python, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana), SQL, Git, Agno, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, LangGraph, AWS/C2S.

Clearance requirement

Active Top Secret/SCI