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Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist
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Job Description
We are seeking an inquisitive Data Scientist to join our team, leveraging 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. 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 Govini, 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.
In order to do this job well, you must be a highly organized problem-solver and possess excellent oral and written communication skills, capable of translating complex AI concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences. You are independent, driven, and motivated to jump in and roll up your sleeves to get the job done. You lead by influence and motivation. You have a passion for great work and nothing less than your best will do. You share our intolerance of mediocrity. You’re uber-smart, challenged by figuring things out and producing simple, impactful AI solutions to complex defense problems. Knowing there are always multiple answers to a problem, you know how to engage in a constructive dialogue to find the best path forward. You’re scrappy. We like scrappy. We need a creative, out-of-the-box thinker who shares our passion and obsession with quality and rapid prototyping/deployment.
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.
- Mentor and guide other team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and high-impact work.
- 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 Govini AI ecosystem.
- Understanding of coding AI (such as Claude Code) and experience how to use it to scale up AI team deliveries
- Ensure timely project delivery and strategic goal alignment.
- 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
- Champion innovation and best practices across the organization.
- Mentor and coach team members.
- Foster a high-performing culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
- 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
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Forward Deployed Data Scientist
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Company Description
Job Description
We are seeking an inquisitive Data Scientist to join our team, leveraging 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. 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 Govini, 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.
In order to do this job well, you must be a highly organized problem-solver and possess excellent oral and written communication skills, capable of translating complex AI concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences. You are independent, driven, and motivated to jump in and roll up your sleeves to get the job done. You lead by influence and motivation. You have a passion for great work and nothing less than your best will do. You share our intolerance of mediocrity. You’re uber-smart, challenged by figuring things out and producing simple, impactful AI solutions to complex defense problems. Knowing there are always multiple answers to a problem, you know how to engage in a constructive dialogue to find the best path forward. You’re scrappy. We like scrappy. We need a creative, out-of-the-box thinker who shares our passion and obsession with quality and rapid prototyping/deployment.
Scope of Responsibilities
- Developing new AI methods and using existing ones to solve complex defense problems
- Developing working AI systems and deploying them
- Rapid prototyping of AI models, systems, heuristics, and agentic solutions
- Working directly with customers to understand and solve their problems
- Translating customer problem definitions into technical requirements for AI-based systems
- Translating vague customer needs into concrete AI workflows and Data Science solutions
- Evaluating solution effectiveness with customers, tuning, and redefining solutions when needed
- Deploying code into production AI systems
- Taking end-to-end ownership of client problems
- Communicating clearly with both non-technical and technical users
- Working with AI platform, agentic AI, and data engineering teams to build end-to-end solutions in production deployments
- Collaborating with AI platform and agentic AI teams to generalize capabilities into reusable agentic AI features/skills for other deployments
- Wrapping AI/DS solutions into AI agentic/skills frameworks
- Create agentic AI systems, using AI orchestrators and particular AI reasoning capabilities as tools.
Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- Ability to translate customer problems into technical AI requirements, and write down the documentation to be used by multiple teams.
- Deep ability to embed with clients, understand vague business or national security challenges, and translate these customer problems into concrete, actionable technical requirements and detailed documentation for AI-based systems.
- Expertise in rapidly prototyping models, heuristics, and agentic solutions. The ability to translate vague needs into concrete AI workflows and Data Science solutions, followed by deploying production-grade code and taking end-to-end ownership of the client's problem.
- Skill in defining concrete AI workflows from vague requirements.
- Experience evaluating and tuning AI solutions for effectiveness. Experience in measuring the impact of AI/DS solutions.
- Competency in deploying code into production AI systems. Competency in building agent/skills solving particular problems.
- Expertise in integrating AI/DS solutions into agentic frameworks.
- End-to-end ownership of client problems.
- Strong communication with non-technical users and technical users.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams for production deployment.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with AI platform and data engineering teams. This includes generalizing unique AI/DS solutions into reusable agentic features/skills and integrating them into agentic frameworks for other production deployments.
Desired Skills:
- A strong publication record in the top conferences in one of the AI, ML, NLP, or decision science areas
- Deep knowledge of LLM and Agentic system evaluation, experience in building evaluation systems
- Extensive expertise in specialized domains such as Operations Research, Optimization, and Decision Science.
- Track record of successfully transitioning AI research prototypes into robust, production-grade enterprise solutions
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