Senior Data Scientist – Forward Deployed

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/ $160000 - $175000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$160000 - $175000

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LOCATION

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Your primary focus will be to work with our proprietary and commercial datasets to find critical connections, derive actionable knowledge, and identify potential issues that help our government clients make more informed decisions. Your role will involve designing, developing, and rapidly deploying scalable AI solutions that transform these insights into mission-critical capabilities. You will have the opportunity to expand and grow data-driven research across our organization, leading new areas to apply advanced analytics to drive strategic business and national security results. As part of our team, you must be an AI expert with a strong command of data science fundamentals and a proven ability to bring data-driven solutions to life within the defense ecosystem.

Scope of Responsibilities

*Develop AI/ML/DS systems to address defense problems.

*Develop new AI-based stack of technologies for particular customer needs.

*Development of evaluation solutions for AI deployments.

*Lead the end-to-end execution of AI projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery.

*Work closely with partner teams, including AI research, data engineering, and software development, to deliver robust AI systems.

*Collaborate with the AI leadership to clearly define product and applications scope, translating high-level requirements into actionable technical plans and delivering AI platforms and solutions.

*Drive the development of scalable, AI-based platforms designed to support and power solutions for a diverse range of customers within the defense ecosystem.

*Champion the introduction of new AI innovations. Stay current with the rapidly evolving fields of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), and agentic systems, and actively transfer this knowledge and best practices for implementation across the team.

*Create agentic AI systems, using AI orchestrators and particular AI reasoning capabilities as tools.

Qualifications

*U.S. Citizenship is required

*Oversee the full lifecycle of AI projects within our AI ecosystem.

*Understanding of coding AI (such as Claude Code) and experience how to use it to scale up AI team deliveries

*Collaborate with cross-functional teams (AI Research, Data Engineering, Software Development).

*Define robust software architecture for AI systems and project roadmaps.

*Translate high-level AI system requirements into actionable technical plans.

*Deliver production-ready AI solutions integrated with clients data platforms and workflows.

*Drive the implementation of scalable AI/ML platforms.

*Maintain deep expertise in cutting-edge AI, including LLMs and agentic systems. Train models, build systems based on AI innovations

*Demonstrate strong National Security domain knowledge.

Desired Skills

*A strong publication record in the top conferences in one of the AI, ML NLP, decision science areas

*Deep knowledge of LLM and Agentic system evaluation, experience in building evaluation systems

*Experience in LLM posttraining or fine tuning

*Experience with MLOps practices, including deployment, monitoring, and management of large-scale models in cloud environments (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).

*Track record of successfully transitioning AI research prototypes into robust, production-grade enterprise solutions

CONTACT

Sasha Hoherchak

Senior Recruitment Consultant

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