AI Data Scientist at B&A
Ashburn, VA
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Jul 20, 2026
Ashburn, VA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data scientist role supporting national digital outreach programs for a large federal agency, requiring an active Top Secret or CBP Background Investigation clearance. Day-to-day work centers on building and deploying machine learning, generative AI, and NLP models, analyzing large datasets for actionable insights, and producing dashboards and visualizations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Suits an experienced practitioner comfortable working across cross-functional teams in a government contracting environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,107 (middle half $108,024–$176,763).
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 (10)
The posting requires an 'Active TS or CBP BI' clearance. This has been mapped to TopSecret, as CBP Background Investigation (BI) is a suitability/public-trust determination rather than a standard DoD clearance level; the TS component is the highest named clearance tier.
The role is described as a 'contract with a federal government client,' indicating this is a contract engagement rather than direct full-time employment at B&A.
Location is inferred as the Washington DC metro area (Northern Virginia) based on B&A's stated headquarters, charitable focus in Northern Virginia, and the federal government client context; no specific city is stated in the posting.
Master's degree is listed as preferred, not required; Bachelor's degree is the hard minimum.
The visualization tools (Tableau, QuickSight, Power BI, QlikView, D3.js) are listed together as interchangeable options under Required Skills; Tableau is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and XGBoost are listed as interchangeable ML framework options under Required Skills; TensorFlow is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Python and R are listed as interchangeable options under Required Skills; Python is used as the primary with R as the alternative.
The specific AWS services (EMR, Redshift, SageMaker, Comprehend, QuickSight, Glue, S3) are all listed explicitly under Required Skills and are captured individually. QuickSight appears both in the visualization tools list and the AWS services list; it is captured under the visualization alternatives to avoid duplication.
Requires a Top Secret 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.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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