Associate Data Scientist

FTI Defense • Norfolk, VA, US • published 2026-09-23 05:43:16.021228

Description

Overview: FTI is hiring an associate Data Scientist to support the Naval Safety Command in Norfolk, VA. As a member of the data science team, you will be working with a team of Data Scientists and Software Engineers to support the development, testing, and deployment of a series of advanced predictive analytics models using data sets that will help diagnose and predict precursors to Naval mishaps and safety hazards. This is a hybrid position with an on\-site at the Naval Safety Command Center in Norfolk, VA. A DoD Secret Clearance is required for this position. Responsibilities: * Support in the designing, calibrating, and testing of a portfolio of predictive risk models to evaluate mishap risk for individual Navy communities. * Support analytical focus on extracting insights from data to make predictions, understand relations, and identify unusual patterns using approaches like time‑series/forecasting, causal inference, statistical modeling, and anomaly detection * Support feature engineering, cross\-validation, and creation of performance metrics (precision, recall) to minimize error and eliminate overfitting. * Partner with software engineers and senior data scientists to integr...

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