# Principal NLP Scientist

Sourceability® is a global digital distributor of electronic components transforming how modern businesses bring products to market. With innovation, qualityandlogisticsas the backbone of the company, Sourceability’scutting-edgeproducts and services expeditethe procurement process across a wide range of industries, including communications/cellular, consumer electronics, and auto manufacturing. The Principal NLP Scientist is a senior technical leader responsible for designing, researching, and improving advanced Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model capabilities for production business systems. This role combines applied research, hands-on model development, technical architecture, and practical product impact. The Principal NLP Scientist will lead the design of NLP solutions for named entity recognition, text classification, text generation, semantic search, information extraction, and other language-driven automation use cases. This is not only a research role. The focus is to take modern NLP and LLM technologies and make them reliable, measurable, maintainable, and useful inside real production workflows. Assigned Product Group Product Group | NLP / AI Automation

- **Id**: 1350660
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sourceability-principal-nlp-scientist-4>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-16T16:15:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:08:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 119
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8224
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Hardware, Supply Chain, Electronic Components Distribution

## Company

- **Id**: 1880443
- **Name**: Sourceability
- **Domain**: sourceability.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sourceability>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 63
- **Ghost share**: 0.238
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 77
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 104000
- **Max usd**: 259000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1286

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GraphRAG** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Matplotlib** — Optional: no
- **NER** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **ONNX** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SciPy** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **ASP.NET Core** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Neo4j** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 119

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-27T18:33:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 25
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.696
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 118
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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