Data Scientist at Precision Solutions
Ft. Meade, MD
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Jul 2, 2026
Ft. Meade, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on building and maintaining benchmark suites to evaluate AI models and agentic workflows, primarily using InspectAI. Day-to-day work involves curating and validating evaluation datasets, defining scoring frameworks, and producing analyses and visualizations that translate model performance results into actionable findings. The position suits a data scientist comfortable working in airgapped or constrained environments and holding an active TS/SCI with Full-Scope Polygraph (NSA).
Mid level · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,274 (middle half $105,061–$170,815).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is onsite at Ft. Meade, MD. The CBSA is Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD (12580), which encompasses Ft. Meade.
An active TS/SCI with Full-Scope Polygraph (NSA) is a hard gate; the posting further specifies the FS Poly must currently be held by the NSA or within the past two years.
The degree requirement is a BS in Computer Science or similar technical field, but 4 years of relevant experience may be substituted — treated as no hard degree gate.
The posting lists no overall years-of-experience floor at the role level; seniority is assessed as Mid based on the scope of independent benchmark design and evaluation work described.
InspectAI is a relatively niche AI evaluation framework; its explicit, repeated mention in both the requirements and tasking sections makes it a clear hard gate.
Cloud/containerized environments appear in both the Technologies and Requirements sections as a hard gate; Docker is used as the canonical skill name with common container/orchestration alternatives noted.
Jira and Confluence are listed under the 'You're familiar with' clause in the Requirements section — this phrasing is softer than 'strong experience with', but they appear in the formal Requirements block, so they are treated as hard gates.
Employment type is not stated; this is a staffing/placement posting by Precision Solutions on behalf of a client.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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