AITS - Artificial Intelligence Research - Research Scientist

Overview:
We are seeking a Scientific, Engineering, and Technical Assistance (SETA) Support Specialist to join our team in support of a government research organization dedicated to investing in high-risk, high-payoff research programs to tackle some of the most difficult challenges of national security.
The successful candidate will support the government program managers in the execution of the lifecycle of various research programs to include development of source selection materials, execution assistance, closeout, and transition. The SETA should be competent in Research and Development (R&D) programmatic reviews and procedures. The candidate will also be responsible for ensuring that project management best practices are followed by the individual programs to include performers, independent verification and validation (IV&V) entities, and within the government research organization itself.
The research programs you would support focus on developing advanced sensor and transmission technologies, innovative collection techniques that more precisely target desired information, and methods for collecting information from previously inaccessible sources. Additional efforts explore new approaches for integrating information from multiple sources to improve the quality, reliability, and operational utility of collected data.
 
The successful candidate will have subject matter expertise in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Large Language Models (LLMs) and/or Computer Vision.
 
Responsibilities

• Support the program managers in coordination, monitoring, communication, and integration of all technical aspects of the Program lifecycle that includes:
  • Coordinate across government, academic, and industry research teams.
  • Review and assess technical deliverables, milestones, and evaluation results.
  • Track risks, dependencies, and integration issues across performers.
• Prepare reports, technical summaries, and briefings for senior leadership.
• Serve as a liaison between performers, Test & Evaluation contributors, government and transition partners;
• Provide support for program related requirements for systems integration, design, development, modeling and simulation, data analytics and architecture design;
• Stay current on advances in technologies relevant to the research programs and perform technical studies as requested on topics of interest to the program managers.
• Provide technical support and expertise on new concepts relevant to the program managers.
• Support the evaluation of Seedling concepts

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelors' degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (i.e., electrical, computer, biometrics, systems, mechanical, software) with eight plus (8+) years of work experience in one of these fields, or Masters' degree with two plus (2+) years of work experience.
• Two (2) years' experience with test driven development, automated unit testing, and data and configuration management.
• Two (2) years ' experience with R&D of image processing, computer vision, natural language processing, biometrics, and/or software engineering.
• One (I) years' experience managing multi-disciplinary research and development (R&D) or Test and Evaluation (T &E) teams.
• One (I) years’ experience with R&D of machine learning or deep neural network algorithms
• Two (2) years' experience creating program plans, work breakdown structures, and milestone schedules
• One (I) years' experience with technical evaluation and assessment techniques
• Experience with Agile program management and systems development processes, including integrated testing.

Desired:

• Masters' degree or PhD in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (i.e., electrical, computer, biometrics, systems, mechanical, software) with four plus (4+) years of work experience.
• Two (2) years' experience in the development of image and video analytics
• Two (2) years' experience in the Intelligence Community (IC), including experience with requirements, CONOPS, and transition.
• Two (2) years ' experience with planning, organizing, and executing field data collections.
• SaFE Scaled Agilist (SA) certification, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Scrum Master, or other agile management certification
• Two (2) years' experience with utilization, development and management of commercial cloud environments
• One (1) years' experience as a Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager
• One (1) year of work experience in any, some, or all of the following technical skills areas: remote sensing; image compression; audio processing; geolocation; biometrics; signal processing; enhancement of Noisy and/or Degraded data and metadata; classified research; probability and/or operations Research; statistical analysis.

Why Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to be part of mission-critical programs advancing collection technologies and national security. You will collaborate with leading universities, research labs, and industry partners on groundbreaking research and technologies.