Reports Engineer/Fledgling Data Scientist – Poly Clearance Required!
Praxis is a prime contractor performing on a High Performance Computing (HPC) contract in support of a restricted customer and a select mission partners. This contract provides advanced computing capabilities for executing scientific, data science and AI/ML workloads. The team provides infrastructures to enables innovation in support of high fidelity, advanced analytics and model development by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities, cutting edge computing and engineering support to its customers.
The infrastructure delivers a state-of-the-art solution comprised of hardware, software, storage and networking as well as application, database and workstation support. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing clustered GPUs and massively parallel CPU to enable the delivery of high fidelity, advanced analytic products. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve some of the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems.
What you will be doing
The team needs to understand the performance characteristics of its complex infrastructure and to quantify how our users exercise this platform. To do this, we need to pull and groom data from systems and logs that categorize key attributes of the platform from visualization and analysis. These views of holistic system use inform actions the team will undertake to optimize the systems and inform future investments.
The successful candidate is responsible for creating visualizations, reports and dashboards for use by management for monitoring and decision making. This role will require learning the needs of the environment and how it can be serviced by curating data for consumption as insightful visual artifacts. This will require developing or building on data science and visualization techniques to deliver easy to understand data represented as online and on display dashboards.
As the role grows, the candidate will expand the work to include acquiring requirements to improve the team’s delivery of HPC hardware and software tools for its mission partners performing data science, complex physics-based modeling, and AI/ML efforts. The candidate will work with the HPC team, the system administration teams, and the users of the delivered capabilities to create the future environment supporting our growing user base. It is expected that this role expands over time to participate in, or take on complex tasks, to increase the usefulness of the infrastructure being supplied as the team approaches nascent disciplines related to emerging field such as MLOps, LLM integrations, AI enabled services, etc.
Day to day this position will be called upon to both work within the defined field of generating these various report and dashboards, while also working with the larger team to leverage all the candidates’ capabilities to meet mission requirements.
What you will need
- Experience in software development to write code and scripts to curate data and develop visualizations. (API/ETL)
- Hands on experience with software and scripting languages resulting in delivered code. (Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Knowledge of data science techniques to address the immediate desires of delivering visualizations and dashboard, with a plan to grow into more complex machine learning operations to enable future systems operations insights.
- Experience capturing requirements.
- Comfortable in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to self-start and manage deadlines to completion.
- A strong curiosity to learn emerging capabilities with an ability to work with the team to set and realize our future vision.
- The drive and desire to lean into creating new, difference making capabilities.
- A team orientation.
Clearance
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role
Salary range:
$79,560.00 - $175,074.00 (Annually)*
Req ID: PRX-25-650
*The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.
Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.
With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.
*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.
Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.
And then there is the...
Benefits
- Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREE employee HSA medical plan!
- Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
- Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
- 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3%) and employer match (up to 5%) for a total of 8%.
- Annual bonus plan
- 4 weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility. (30+ days of leave to start!)
- We reward longevity! On your 5th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 5 weeks of PTO. Making it 35+ days of leave altogether!
- On your 10th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 6 weeks of PTO. Making it 40+ days of leave altogether!
- At any time, your unused PTO can be traded in for $$$!
- Carryover a max of 380hours of leave from year to year. You can choose to have a sabbatical one year or trade in your unused PTO for something nice!
- Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
- Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
- Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
- Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
- We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.
Praxis Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans.