I'm from Kaggle. We'd be happy to help you anonymize your data and create and run one or more data mining competitions for free. Ping us through www.kaggle.com if you're interested. Might be a good way to get started with deep data science, and also leverage the data engineers you hire once you have them.
Apply through the ordinary software developer position for now -- but we're hunting for some passionate data engineers to do more stuff like this: http://david-hu.com/2011/11/02/how-khan-academy-is-using-mac...