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Lead Data Scientist - Simulation / Optimization
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The Lead Data Scientist will provide visionary technical leadership to a team of data scientists and AI engineers, driving the end-to-end development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence solutions for our National Security clientele. This pivotal AI leadership role is instrumental in establishing a robust culture of decision-making Agentic AI and creating the AI platforms, the "brain" of The Ark, designed to be leveraged by a broad community of AI and Data Science professionals within Govini.
As a hands-on technical leader, you will apply deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and a keen understanding of complex Defense Acquisition challenges. 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. This involves designing, developing, and rapidly deploying scalable AI solutions that transform these insights into mission-critical capabilities. You will also have the opportunity to expand and grow data-driven research across Govini, leading new areas to apply advanced analytics to drive strategic business and national security results. You'll apply your deep knowledge in advanced simulation and optimization techniques, including Discrete Event Simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and stochastic optimization, to enhance our platforms to handle complex capability simulation and optimization techniques for critical defense use cases.
To excel in this position, 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. The ideal candidate is a highly organized problem-solver who possesses excellent oral and written communication skills, capable of translating complex AI concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences. You must be independent, driven, and motivated to jump in and roll up your sleeves to get the job done. You lead by influence and motivation, demonstrating a passion for great work and an intolerance for mediocrity. We seek an uber-smart, creative, out-of-the-box thinker who is challenged by complex defense problems and obsessed with quality and rapid prototyping/deployment, knowing how to engage in constructive dialogue to find the best path forward.
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Drive the development of a complex, multi-modal decision intelligence system, serving as the central nervous architecture for integrating advanced simulation, optimization, and predictive modeling capabilities across The Ark's platforms.
- Define the multi-year technical roadmap for AI initiatives, turning vague business challenges into concrete, scalable research and product goals.
- Raise the collective bar by mentoring Senior-level engineers and building high-performing teams that consistently deliver state-of-the-art (SOTA) results.
- Drive consensus across disparate groups such as DS and AI, Product, Forward Deployed AI and Engineering, to ensure AI deployments are technically sound, commercially viable, and responsible.
- Act as the authority on scientific breakthroughs and model strategy, ensuring that core architectures, training methodologies, and data ecosystems are robust, cost-effective, and future-proofed against the rapidly evolving AI landscape
- Lead the end-to-end execution of large-scale AI projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery.
- Apply deep knowledge in advanced simulation and optimization techniques, including Discrete Event Simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and stochastic optimization.
- Enhance our platforms to handle complex capability simulation and optimization techniques for critical defense use cases.
- Act as the primary Individual Contributor (IC) and technical lead for complex AI/ML/DS projects, taking deep ownership from ideation to production deployment.
- Serve as the domain expert in a specific area of AI (e.g., Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Decision Science), driving the application and development of state-of-the-art methods within that specialization.
- Work closely with partner teams, including AI research, data engineering, and software development, to define robust software architecture, set the project roadmap, and manage technical execution.
- Collaborate with the Product team to clearly define product scope, translating high-level requirements into actionable technical plans and delivering market-ready AI solutions integrated with client data platforms and workflows.
- 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, including advanced methods in simulation and optimization, Large Language Models (LLMs), and agentic systems, and actively transfer this knowledge and best practices for implementation across the team.
- Mentor and guide junior and senior team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and high-impact work.
- Nurture a robust AI culture within the team by leading technical discussions, conducting internal workshops, and promoting best practices in model development, experimentation, and MLOps.
- Demonstrate strong leadership qualities to align the team's AI strategy effectively with overall business and client needs, translating complex technical concepts into strategic business impacts for leadership.
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience working as a Data Scientist in an industry setting
- Oversee the full lifecycle of large-scale AI projects.
- Possess deep knowledge and the ability to apply techniques such as Discrete Event Simulation (DES), agent based modeling and Monte Carlo methods to model complex capabilities.
- Deep understanding and application of advanced optimization techniques, specifically including stochastic optimization.
- Deep understanding and practical experience with Bayesian optimization, causal discovery, and causal modeling.
- Ability to leverage simulation and optimization knowledge to enhance platforms for complex capability simulation and optimization in critical defense use cases.
- Understanding of coding AI (such as Claude Code) and experience in using it to scale up AI team deliveries
- Expertise in leveraging deep technical knowledge of AI solution internals (such as Deep Research systems) to design and implement custom, highly optimized solutions.
- Ensure timely project delivery and strategic goal alignment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (AI Research, Data Engineering, Software Development).
- Define robust software architecture for large-scale AI systems and project roadmaps.
- Translate high-level product 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
- Champion innovation and best practices across the organization.
- Mentor and coach team members.
- Foster a high-performing culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
- Help to the leadership to align AI strategy effectively with client needs.
- Create agentic AI systems, using AI orchestrators and particular AI reasoning capabilities as tools.
Desired Skills:
- A strong publication record in the top conferences in one of the AI, ML NLP, and decision science areas
- Deep knowledge of LLM and Agentic system evaluation, experience in building evaluation systems
- Experience in LLM post-training or fine-tuning
- Demonstrate strong National Security domain knowledge.
- 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
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Data Product Manager, Government Systems
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We are seeking a Data Product Manager for Government Systems to join our Data Product & Operations team. In this role you will take ownership of mapping, prioritizing and tracking the integration of government data systems into Govini’s Ark platform. Working with our go-to-market teams including Sales, Implementation Engineers, and Engagement Managers, you’ll learn about and become an expert of key government data systems that are critical to our customers day-to-day workflows. You will synthesize and convey the nuances and uses of each system to our Product team which will help inform workflow development within Ark.
These data systems will inform Govini’s data integration plan, which you will develop, document, and maintain. You will also work with both the engineering and security accreditations teams to develop technical implementation plans for each data system.
This role requires cross-team collaboration, strong communication skills, across both technical and non-technical audiences. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience working with government clients and users, along with the ability to understand data systems at a technical level.
This role is a full-time position located out of our offices in Arlington, VA.
This role will require between 25-50% travel.
Scope of Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the government systems data roadmap that identifies priority systems aligned with current and future data needs
- Partner with Go-To-Market and Product teams to understand and document capabilities, uses of, customers/users of, and data contained within each targeted data system
- Identify and document overlap and gaps to current data coverage and align with planned data expansions
- Attend technical-focused customer meetings and engagements to learn more about each data system and perform customer interviews
- Partnering with the Security Accreditations team, develop standard internal procedures for data access and governance with each system
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Product Management, Data Analysis, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Four or more years of experience working with government data systems
- Four of more years experience with SQL, Python, or equivalent programmatic language
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with attention to detail
- Experience with Generative AI technologies
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Masters’s degree in Product Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 3+ years experience with government data systems such as JUPITER, ADVANA, BLADE, or other systems
- Familiarity with defense acquisition processes and related data sources
- Experience managing data-related projects and initiatives
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Lead Data Scientist - Knowledge Retrieval
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The Lead Data Scientist will provide visionary technical leadership to a team of data scientists and AI engineers, driving the end-to-end development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence solutions for our National Security clientele. This crucial position is key to building a strong culture of advanced agentic search, deep research, retrieval, and AI, and to creating scalable AI platforms for the wider AI and Data Science community.
As a hands-on technical leader, you will apply deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and a keen understanding of complex Defense Acquisition challenges. 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. This involves designing, developing, and rapidly deploying scalable AI solutions that transform these insights into mission-critical capabilities. You will also have the opportunity to expand and grow data-driven research across Govini, leading new areas to apply advanced analytics to drive strategic business and national security results. You will build and lead the development of advanced agentic search, knowledge retrieval, and deep research systems. These systems are designed to provide deep conversational knowledge explorations, robust problem solving, accurate question answering, and a suite of other search, recommendation, and discovery capabilities, transforming proprietary and commercial datasets into mission-critical insights.
To excel in this position, 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. The ideal candidate is a highly organized problem-solver who possesses excellent oral and written communication skills, capable of translating complex AI concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences. You must be independent, driven, and motivated to jump in and roll up your sleeves to get the job done. You lead by influence and motivation, demonstrating a passion for great work and an intolerance for mediocrity. We seek an uber-smart, creative, out-of-the-box thinker who is challenged by complex defense problems and obsessed with quality and rapid prototyping/deployment, knowing how to engage in constructive dialogue to find the best path forward
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and development of the 'Ark Brain,' a complex, multi-modal intelligent agent system for knowledge retrieval and deep research, serving as the central nervous architecture for powering agentic AI search, deep research, RAG, and knowledge graph systems across The Ark's platforms.
- Define the multi-year technical roadmap for AI initiatives, turning vague business challenges into concrete, scalable research and product goals.
- Raise the collective bar by mentoring Senior-level engineers and building high-performing teams that consistently deliver state-of-the-art (SOTA) results.
- Drive consensus across disparate groups such as DS and AI, Product, Forward Deployed AI and Engineering, to ensure AI deployments are technically sound, commercially viable, and responsible.
- Act as the authority on scientific breakthroughs and model strategy, ensuring that core architectures, training methodologies, and data ecosystems are robust, cost-effective, and future-proofed against the rapidly evolving AI landscape
- Lead the end-to-end execution of large-scale AI projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery.
- Lead the development of advanced agentic search, knowledge retrieval, and deep research systems.
- Drive the expansion of data-driven research and advanced analytics for strategic business and national security results.
- Design and deploy Agentic AI systems capable of deep conversational knowledge explorations, robust problem solving, and accurate question answering from proprietary datasets.
- Act as the primary Individual Contributor (IC) and technical lead for complex AI/ML/DS projects, taking deep ownership from ideation to production deployment.
- Serve as the domain expert in AI Search Science (ranking, query understanding, agentic search, deep research, embedding models, etc), driving the application and development of state-of-the-art methods within that specialization.
- Work closely with partner teams, including AI research, data engineering, and software development, to define robust software architecture, set the project roadmap, and manage technical execution.
- Collaborate with the Product team to clearly define product scope, translating high-level requirements into actionable technical plans and delivering market-ready AI solutions integrated with client data platforms and workflows.
- 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.
- Mentor and guide junior and senior team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and high-impact work.
- Nurture a robust AI culture within the team by leading technical discussions, conducting internal workshops, and promoting best practices in model development, experimentation, and MLOps.
- Demonstrate strong leadership qualities to align the team's AI strategy effectively with overall business and client needs, translating complex technical concepts into strategic business impacts for leadership.
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Minimum of 7 years of professional experience working as a Data Scientist in an industry setting
- Oversee the full lifecycle of large-scale AI projects.
- Understanding of coding AI (such as Claude Code) and experience in using it to scale up AI team deliveries
- Expertise in designing and implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and complex indexing strategies for proprietary, large-scale, heterogeneous datasets. Expertise in fine-tuning multi modal embedding models
- Proven ability to leverage state-of-the-art LLMs, multi-modal embedding models, vector databases, and knowledge graph systems to build production-ready knowledge retrieval, conversational AI search, and Deep Research systems.
- Practical experience building hybrid knowledge retrieval systems that combine advanced techniques like embedding models, knowledge graphs, and traditional methods (e.g., BM25), utilizing novel paradigms such as GraphRAG, RAG-RL, and other advanced retrieval strategies.
- Deep knowledge of and practical experience with ranking and reranking models, including multi-tower, bi-encoder and cross-encoder architectures, specifically within the context of search and knowledge retrieval systems.
- Expert proficiency in developing and deploying multi-agent AI systems and reasoning frameworks (e.g., ReAct, Chain-of-Thought) for complex knowledge exploration, robust problem-solving, and decision support within search and retrieval contexts.
- Ensure timely project delivery and strategic goal alignment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (AI Research, Data Engineering, Software Development).
- Define robust software architecture for large-scale AI systems and project roadmaps.
- Translate high-level product 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
- Champion innovation and best practices across the organization.
- Mentor and coach team members.
- Foster a high-performing culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
- Help to the leadership to align AI strategy effectively with client needs.
- Create agentic AI systems, using AI orchestrators and particular AI reasoning capabilities as tools.
Desired Skills:
- A strong publication record in the top conferences in one of the AI, ML NLP, and decision science areas
- Deep knowledge of LLM and Agentic system evaluation, experience in building evaluation systems
- Experience in LLM post-training or fine-tuning.
- Demonstrate strong National Security domain knowledge.
- 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
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AI Engineer, Internal Enablement & Productivity
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We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our AI Enablement team, focused on rapidly increasing internal employee productivity and operational efficiency across the company by scaling robust AI integrations and agentic workflows. This role will be central to designing and deploying agents to handle complex, end-to-end tasks, driving measurable improvements in how our core teams (e.g., Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success) work. This strategic and execution-focused role will lead our internal AI Enablement roadmap, initially focusing deeply on improving core departments (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Success) through agentic automation.
You'll leverage best-in-class AI tools and AI agents (e.g. Gemini and other LLMs) to dramatically increase employee productivity, drive down operational costs, and enable our teams to deliver faster, better outcomes at scale. Your goal is to build our foundation for an AI-enabled future, implementing AI-driven workflows and agents throughout the organization, starting with internal operations and coupling workflows across key functions like GTM.To do this job well, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate project(s) built on LLMs that showcases your skill at reliably automating complex tasks.
- Experience integrating and working with LLMs, with a strong understanding of their capabilities and limitations
- Experience integrating and working with agent frameworks (e.g. Claude Agent SDK, Google Anti-Gravity, OpenAI Agent SDK)
- Experience building observability, evaluation, and feedback loops for agent behavior (telemetry, prompt evaluation, regression testing, and reliability metrics).
- Experience working in highly ambiguous environments, and operate with urgency
- Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
Strong Candidates have:
- Deep experience leveraging agents across applications and business workflows to drive meaningful impact
- Experience designing and deploying complex agentic systems using LLMs (e.g. deep research)
- Hands-on work with multi-agent coordination, routing, and tool orchestration
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Arlington, VA or Pittsburgh, PA. This role may require up to 25% travel.
Scope of Responsibilities
- Designs and builds multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning to automate internal business processes and enhance employee capabilities.
- Develops Agent Skills and tools as modular, composable services that interact with backend systems, models, and data processing to increase internal team velocity.
- Contribute to the technical architecture and engineering standards for internal agentic systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability across the organization.
- Assist with automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the entire product lifecycle to ensure reliable internal tools.
- Partner with internal Product, Engineering, GTM, and Operations teams to identify and implement AI-driven solutions to optimize their workflows and reduce operational costs.
How We Define Success (Key Metrics)Internal Team Enablement (Operations, Customer Success, Engineering)
- Operational Cost Savings: Reduce operational expenses for targeted teams through workflow automation via AI agents.
- Employee Productivity: Achieve measurable increases in internal team capacity and velocity through AI-driven workflows and tools.
- Internal Adoption Rate: Achieve a high adoption rate of new AI agents and enablement tools within key departments within the first 90 days.
- Accelerated Development: Reduce feature development timelines through AI-assisted coding, documentation, and testing tools.
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience building and deploying ML or LLM-powered systems in production environments
- Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing machine learning systems
- Advanced software skills in Python and other programming languages
- Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations, including coding agents (e.g. Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices).
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- A strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Ability to work collaboratively with little supervision
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced tech environment
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced tech environment
Desired Skills:
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, or similar) and API-driven UI architectures
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Senior AI Engineer, Agent Workflows
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We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic offerings across all levels of the US government. Over the past year, we have seen the rapid adoption of our agent, Ace. We expect Ace to be handling much more complex tasks and workflows end-to-end or in cooperation with a human user as time goes on. The team is striving to make Ace an even more effective agent, focusing on planning, reliable execution over longer time horizon tasks, scaled tool use, Ace Skills, memory, and inter-agent coordination.
In order to do this job well, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate a project built on LLMs that showcases your skill at getting them to do complex tasks.
- Experience integrating and working with LLMs, with a strong understanding of their capabilities and limitations
- Experience integrating and working with agent frameworks like Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Agent SDK
- Experience building observability, evaluation, and feedback loops for agent behavior (telemetry, prompt evaluation, regression testing, and reliability metrics).
- Experience working in highly ambiguous environments, and operate with urgency
- Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
Strong Candidates have:
- Experience designing and deploying complex agentic systems using LLMs
- Hands-on work with multi-agent coordination, routing, and tool orchestration
- Love coding agents
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.
This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Designs and builds multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning
- Develops Agent Skills and tools as modular, composable services that interact with backend systems, models, and data processing
- Own the technical architecture and engineering standards for agentic systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Assist with automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the entire product lifecycle
- Work with our Product and Implementation organizations to find solutions to our most vexing challenges applying agents to our customer problems
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade machine learning or LLM-powered systems, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end delivery
- Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing machine learning systems
- Advanced software skills in Python
- Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
- A strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Ability to work collaboratively with little supervision
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced tech environment
Desired Skills:
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, or similar) and API-driven UI architectures
- Comfortable with Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices.
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Company Description
Job Description
We are seeking a Knowledge Engineer to join our Data Product & Operations team. In this role, you will build and maintain taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and domain ontologies that bring structure to complex defense acquisition data. Working alongside data engineers and data scientists, domain experts, and product teams, you'll create semantic models that provide structured knowledge to AI systems and enable effective search, classification, and analysis across Govini's Ark platform.
This role requires systematic analytical thinking, strong communication skills, and a passion for combining theoretical rigor with practical implementation. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in taxonomy and ontology development, along with the ability to guide teams in adopting semantic technologies.This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.
This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Build and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies for defense acquisition domains
- Map unstructured data to structured semantic models that integrate with Ark's data infrastructure
- Establish metadata standards and modeling guidelines in collaboration with data engineering and data science teams
- Partner with product and domain experts to translate business requirements into semantic solutions
- Document semantic models and provide guidance to support team adoption and effective use
- Help drive organization-wide understanding and adoption of semantic technologies and best practices.
- Track adoption and measure impact, continuously refining models, tools, and practices
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience developing ontologies, taxonomies, or knowledge graphs
- Hands-on experience with ontology editors (e.g., Protégé, TopBraid) and graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, RDF stores)
- Working knowledge of semantic web standards (OWL, RDF, SKOS, SPARQL)
- Proven ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate requirements into semantic models
- Understanding of how AI/ML and generative AI systems leverage structured knowledge and ontologies
- Active U.S. security clearance or ability to obtain one
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Familiarity with defense acquisition data and processes
- Experience with data modeling, schema design, or metadata management
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Company Description
Govini transforms Defense Acquisition from an outdated manual process to a software-driven strategic advantage for the United States. Our flagship product, Ark, supports Supply Chain, Science and Technology, Production, Sustainment, Logistics, and Modernization teams with AI-enabled Applications and best-in-class data to more rapidly imagine, develop, and field the capabilities we need. Today, the national security community and every branch of the military rely on Govini to enable faster and more informed Acquisition decisions.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to lead our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic offerings across all levels of the US government. Over the past year, we have seen the rapid adoption of our agent, Ace. We expect Ace to be handling much more complex tasks and workflows end-to-end and/or in cooperation with a human user as time goes on. The team is striving to make Ace an even more effective agent, focusing on planning, reliable execution over longer time horizon tasks, scaled tool use, Ace Skills, memory, and inter-agent coordination.
In order to do this job well, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate a project built on LLMs that showcases your skill at getting them to do complex tasks.
- Experience leading agentic system development from ideation through production, including technical design, architecture decisions, and day-to-day leadership of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
- Experience integrating and working with LLMs, with a strong understanding of their capabilities and limitations
- Experience integrating and working with agent frameworks like Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Agent SDK
- Experience building observability, evaluation, and feedback loops for agent behavior (telemetry, prompt evaluation, regression testing, and reliability metrics).
- Experience working in highly ambiguous environments, and operating with urgency
- Lead Agile ceremonies and technical planning for the Agentic AI team
Strong Candidates have:
- Experience designing and deploying complex agentic systems using LLMs
- Hands-on work with multi-agent coordination, routing, and tool orchestration
- Passion for building autonomous and semi-autonomous systems that solve real customer problems
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.
This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Designs and builds multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning
- Develops Agent Skills and tools as modular, composable services that interact with backend systems, models, and data processing
- Assist with automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the entire product lifecycle
- Work with our Product and Implementation organizations to find solutions to our most vexing challenges applying agents to our customer problems
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- Minimum 3 years of experience building and deploying ML or LLM-powered systems in production environments
- Minimum 2 years of experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in production environments
- Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing machine learning systems
- Advanced software skills in Python
- Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
- A strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Ability to work collaboratively with little supervision
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced tech environment
Desired Skills:
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience with Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices.
We firmly believe that past performance is the best indicator of future performance. If you thrive while building solutions to complex problems, are a self-starter, and are passionate about making an impact in global security, we’re eager to hear from you.
Govini is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Interactions
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Job Description
We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic offerings across all levels of the US government. Over the past year, we have seen the rapid adoption of our agent, Ace. We expect Ace to interact with all Ark interfaces in an agentic manner as time goes on. The team is striving to make Ace an even more effective agent, focusing on planning, reliable execution over longer time horizon tasks, scaled tool use, Ace Skills, memory, and inter-agent coordination.
In order to do this job well, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate a project built on LLMs that showcases your skill at getting them to interact with frontend interfaces agentically.
Experience designing front-end architectures with explicit state and action models suitable for AI-driven interaction (agent-controlled UI, tool invocation, and deterministic workflows).
- Experience integrating and working with LLMs, with a strong understanding of their capabilities and limitations
- Experience integrating and working with agent frameworks like Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Agent SDK
- Experience building observability, evaluation, and feedback loops for agent behavior (telemetry, prompt evaluation, regression testing, and reliability metrics).
- Experience working in highly ambiguous environments, and operate with urgency
- Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
Strong Candidates have:
- Experience designing and deploying complex agentic systems using LLMs
- Hands-on work with multi-agent coordination, routing, and tool orchestration
- Love coding agents
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.
This role may require up to 10% travel
Scope of Responsibilities
- Designs and builds multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning
- Develops Agent Skills and tools as modular, composable services that interact with backend systems, models, and data processing
- Assist with automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the entire product lifecycle
- Work with our Product and Implementation organizations to find solutions to our most vexing challenges applying agents to our customer problems
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive experience designing, building, and deploying production-grade machine learning or LLM-powered systems, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end delivery
- Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing machine learning systems
- Advanced software skills in Python
- Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
- A strong desire to learn and investigate new technologies
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Ability to work collaboratively with little supervision
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced tech environment
Desired Skills:
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Comfortable with Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices.
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Job Description
Scope of Responsibilities
- Inform and implement the design and development of NLP applications to enhance the intelligence and efficiency of our data analytics software-as-a-service platform
- Review, verify, and aggregate the most appropriate annotated datasets for the best-supervised learning methods
- Ability to work with taxonomy experts to create and validate dataset annotation
- Use well-formed and effective text representation to change and adapt natural language documents into user-friendly features
- implement the latest technology to improve user search functionality as well as integrate state of the art LLM models into our Ark.ai platform to enhance user experience.
- Develop new algorithms and modeling techniques and conduct sound experiments to verify model results and integrate models into the live production system
- Establish meaningful criteria for evaluating algorithm performance and suitabilityImplement working, scalable, production-ready models and code
- Keep up to date with Machine Learning best practices and evolving open-source frameworks
- Regularly seek out innovation and continuous improvement, finding efficiency in all assigned tasks
- Collaborate closely with fellow taxonomists, software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and QA engineers
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Advanced degree, or bachelor’s with at least 3 years of experience, in Data Science, Machine Learning or a related field
- Minimum 3 years experience with hands-on development of NLP models
- In-depth understanding of NLP methods for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures, and modeling
- Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing both supervised and unsupervised machine learning models
- Advanced software skills in Python
- Advanced ability in forming SQL queries
- A strong desire to learn, investigate, and implement cutting-edge technologies
- Ability to work collaboratively throughout the design process.
Desired Skills:
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience in deploying ML models in Kubernetes environments
- Experience developing custom training sets for large language models
- Experience productionizing transformer-based models
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Job Description
Scope of Responsibilities
- Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build models for advanced data analysis and complex algorithms
- Apply advanced statistical and predictive modeling techniques to build, maintain, and improve multiple real-time decision systems
- Make strategic recommendations on data collection, integration, and retention requirements, incorporating business requirements and knowledge of data industry best practices
- Model and frame business scenarios that are meaningful and which impact critical processes and decisions; transform, standardize, and integrate datasets for client use cases
- Convert custom, complex and manual client data analysis tasks into repeatable, configurable processes for consistent and scalable use within the Govini SaaS platform
- Optimize processes for maximum speed, performance, and accuracy; craft clean, testable, and maintainable code
- Partner with internal Govini business analysts and external client teams to seek out the best solutions regarding data-driven problem-solving
- Participate in end-to-end software development, on an agile team in a scrum process, collaborating closely with fellow software, machine learning, data, and QA engineers
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field; Master’s or PhD preferred
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on data science experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience deriving key insights and KPIs for external and internal customers
- Regular development experience in Python
- Prior hands-on experience working with data-driven analytics
- Proven ability to develop solutions to loosely defined business problems by leveraging pattern detection over large datasets
- Proficiency in statistical analysis, quantitative analytics, forecasting/predictive analytics, multivariate testing, and optimization algorithms
- Experience using machine learning algorithms (e.g., gradient-boosted machines, neural networks)
- Ability to work independently with little supervision
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- A burning desire to work in a challenging fast-paced environment
- Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
- Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
- Experience working on agile/scrum teams
- Experience building datasets from common database tools using flavors of SQL
- Expertise with automation and streaming data
- Experience with major NLP frameworks (spaCy, fasttext, BERT)Familiarity with big data frameworks (e.g., HDFS, Spark) and AWS
- Familiarity with Git source control management
- Experience working in a product organization
- Experience analyzing financial, supply chain/logistics, or intellectual property data
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