Geospatial AI Research Scientist

Job Location: Bethesda, MD

Compensation: $130,000 - $200,000

Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI with a CI

Polygraph clearance

Job Description:

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

Geospatial AI for Intelligence capabilities and methods.

The successful candidate will have subject matter expertise in AI/ML for

computer vision, NLP, predictive analytics, LLMs and understanding of

data architecture and pipelines for large-scale analytics/GEOINT

production.

- 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

Skills/Qualifications:

Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or

relevant engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems,

software).

- EIGHT (8) or more years of work experience including, but not be

limited to

- Knowledge of AI/ML (computer vision, NLP, predictive analytics,

LLMs).

- Understanding of data architectures and pipelines for

large-scale analytics/GEOINT production.

- Familiarity with AI governance, data quality, and mission

assurance in operational settings

- Experience with R&D of spatiotemporal data, architectures,

modeling and/or machine learning algorithms

- Systems engineering and integration experience in complex,

data-intensive environments.

- Experience creating program plans, work breakdown structures,

and milestone schedules

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Desired:

- Master’s degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or

relevant engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems,

software) with SIX (6) or more years of work experience

- PhD in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant

engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems, software) with

FOUR (4) or more years of work experience

- Experience in the Intelligence Community (IC), including

requirements, CONOPS, and transition

- Experience managing a multi-disciplinary R&D or T&E team

- Experience as a Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager

- Ability to proactively manage multiple, concurrent tasks

- Excellent writing and editing skills, including the ability to

develop succinct, comprehensive, and understandable documents using

complex data from multiple sources

- Excellent slide development and PowerPoint skills, with the ability

to visually communicate complex ideas at a high level for

technically savvy but non-expert audiences

- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills;

detail oriented

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Education:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field

ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal

employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment

without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,

national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,

gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic

information, or mental or physical disability