Data Scientist (Remote, Continental United States) at ICA, Inc. in Arlington, VA
- Company: ICA, Inc.
- Location: Arlington, VA
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $117,000+ / Year
- Experience: 4+ years
Overview
ICA.ai is seeking a Data Scientist to design and deliver data science and AI solutions for complex healthcare, federal health, and regulated-data environments. This role requires strong technical depth, practical judgment, and the ability to take ownership from ambiguous problem definition through e…
Job description
- ICA.ai is seeking a Data Scientist to design and deliver data science and AI solutions for complex healthcare, federal health, and regulated-data environments. This role requires strong technical depth, practical judgment, and the ability to take ownership from ambiguous problem definition through evaluation and production. A Public Trust Clearance is required for the role, and we will work with you to obtain this.
Responsibilities
- Build machine-learning, analytics, NLP, and generative-AI solutions using structured and unstructured data.
- Develop and improve workflows that transform documents, free text, and other complex source data into reliable structured outputs.
- Build downstream data-science solutions such as classification, prediction, prioritization, analytics, and decision-support workflows.
- Perform data preparation, feature development, experimentation, model evaluation, error analysis, and validation.
- Investigate model and data-quality issues and iterate on approaches when results do not meet expectations.
- Contribute to production workflows, monitoring, human-review processes, and reproducible data-science practices.
- Work with senior technical staff, domain experts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into practical technical solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent work experience in Data Science or related field
- Hands-on experience building data science, machine-learning, or applied-AI solutions.
- Strong Python and SQL skills with solid foundations in statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and data analysis.
- Experience working with unstructured data such as documents, free text, NLP, information extraction, document AI, or LLM-based workflows.
- Ability to independently execute defined projects, evaluate results, troubleshoot failures, and communicate findings clearly.
- Understanding of how data quality and extraction errors can affect downstream models and analytics.
- Experience working with production systems, sensitive data, or high-accountability environments is preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, government, or regulated industries is a plus.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States and have lived in the US for 3 or more consecutive years.
- Must be able and willing to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
Skills
Required
- Strong Python and SQL skills
Benefits
- We invest in our team members so you can live your best life professionally and personally, offering a competitive salary and benefits.
- Health Insurance -100% employer-paid premiums – ICA covers the full cost of one of three offered medical plans
- Dental Insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life and Disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick Leave and Holidays)
- Education and Professional Development Assistance
- Remote work from anywhere within the continental United States
About ICA, Inc.
ICA, Inc. is a rapidly growing company, located in the D.C./Metro area. We were founded in 2009 to assist government clients with evaluating and achieving their objectives. We have become a trusted advisor helping our clients by offering cutting-edge innovation and solutions to complex projects. Our small company has grown significantly, and we're overjoyed at the opportunity to expand yet again! We are results-focused and have a proven track record supporting federal agencies and large government services primes in three main areas: Research and Data Analysis, Advanced-Data Science, and Strategic Services. We currently support multiple analytics and research programs across HHS. At ICA, we believe our success starts with our people. We foster a collaborative "one team" environment where work-life balance isn't just talked about – it's prioritized. We're building dynamic, highly skilled teams in a welcoming and supportive atmosphere. If you're passionate about using your technical expertise to make a difference, we want to talk to you.