Media Analyst (2026-0189)

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring a Media Analyst, Senior with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to join our Intelligence Division working in Northern Virginia.  The Consultant will be responsible for finding unique ways to leverage open source and proprietary data for operational support and our customer's program evaluation activities. This is a multi-year project with growing potential, in which the Consultant will have the opportunity to demonstrate intellectual agility by exploring and leading cutting-edge data research design, data collection, and data analysis for a client in the US Intelligence Community, all centered around media analysis.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND DEMONSTRATED EXPERIENCE

• TS/SCI with poly required
• Working with regular expressions and developing solutions with Python, Linux basics, Sigma, ION, Analyst Notebook, Data Manipulation, and basic Social Network Analysis 

• Natural Language Processing (NLP) in one or more of the following: text preprocessing and cleaning for downstream NLP tasks, information extraction, Named Entity Recognition (NER), identity matching, text normalization, automatic summarization, NLP evaluation, machine translation, machine transliteration, document exploitation pipelines, multilingual computing, ontology management, or computational lexicography 

• Experience in:
  • • Maintaining and managing a custom language model
    • Leading qualitative research and program evaluation activities  
    • Developing presentations and provide briefings to middle and senior management  
    • Delivering visual representation of data using charts and graphs  
    • Analyzing information and identifying implications for policy, processes, communications and training on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis 
  • Familiarity with Measures of Performance and Measures of Effectiveness (MOP/E)
• The salary range for this position is $190,000-$240,000 depending on experience.