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In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role - protecting our national security.\nWhy Join Us?\nInnovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.\nCollaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.\nImpactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDevelop and deploy advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions using Python libraries such as SpaCy, Gensim, and NLTK.\nDesign, train, evaluate, and optimize machine learning and deep learning models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras.\nLeverage the Hugging Face Transformers library and model hub to develop state-of-the-art language models and text analytics solutions.\nCreate and maintain machine learning models that perform text classification, topic modeling, information extraction, and related NLP tasks.\nConduct advanced statistical analysis on personnel, intelligence, and performance metrics to identify trends, relationships, and actionable insights.\nUtilize SQL to query, transform, and analyze large datasets from multiple data sources.\nLeverage GPU-accelerated computing environments to improve model training, inference, and large-scale analytical processing.\nWork Environment:\nLocation: On-site\nTravel Requirements: Minimal\nWorking Hours: Standard\nQualifications:\nRequired:\nActive TS/SCI with a Polygraph\nMinimum of 10 years experience\nExperience or academic exposure performing NLP tasks using Python-based NLP packages such as SpaCy, Gensim, or NLTK.\nExperience or academic exposure with deep learning models using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras.\nExperience utilizing the Hugging Face Transformers library and model hub for NLP and machine learning applications.\nExperience creating machine learning models that perform text classification and topic modeling.\nExperience using SQL to access, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.\nExperience leveraging GPUs for accelerated computing and conducting advanced statistical analysis on various metrics.\nDesired:\nBachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field.\nExperience tuning large language models (LLMs) on custom data sets.\nExperience with cloud computing development and architectures.\nExperience with frameworks such as Spring Boot to build backend applications and REST APIs.\nBasic Compensation:\n$177,200 to $216,500\nThis range is for the VA area only\nThe offered rate will be based on the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities and/or experience and in consideration of internal parity.\nAdditional Compensation:\nKBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels, per internal policy or contractual designation. 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