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Job Summary:
High Side Technology is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to work on a government site as part of a distributed multi-disciplinary team. This role involves providing AI data science expertise, developing ML/AI models, and coordinating with team members to enhance analytic workflows for government customers.
Responsibilities:
• Provide AI data science and engineering expertise to advise the DDI program, assisting the agency’s development and management of ML/AI and agents to augment the analytic workflows of analysts addressing DoD/IC mission priorities.
• Employ various programming algorithms to build, test and deploy ML/AI models and agentic AI capabilities.
• Coordinate with other team members, developers, analysts, and scientists.
• Create and manage the AI development process and overall product infrastructure.
• Conduct statistical analysis and interpret the results to guide an organization's decision-making process.
• Develop infrastructures for data transformation and ingestion and automate important infrastructure for analysts and scientists.
• Build AI models that make predictions based on large quantities of data.
• Explain the usefulness of the AI models to a wide range of individuals within the organization, including collaborators and product managers.
• Develop APIs to interact with other applications.
• Establish complete and accurate system-level functional/performance requirements that are clear, traceable from strategic capabilities to validated customer and operations needs/requirements, and consistent with the program’s architecture objectives and acquisition strategy.
• Define, plan, coordinate, and guide various technical initiatives (e.g. performance analysis, feasibility studies, constraint evaluation, cost/benefit analysis) for execution of system-level functional requirements definition and resolution of interface issues.
• Provide technical coordination, architecture guidance, and support for DDI project development.
• Define the milestones and control gate success criteria and evaluate entry/exit readiness during design reviews and audits to ensure protection of baselines and to assist in risk identification and resolution.
• Plan and coordinate data management practices to treat and handle data as a resource.
• Assist Government principals in managing system development and deployment efforts, moves or modernization changes including analysis, IT and cloud requirements, network security measures, and other factors.
Qualifications:
Required:
• United States citizenship required
• Top Secret/SCI security clearance or current Top Secret SSBI with TS/SCI eligibility required; counterintelligence (CI) polygraph may be required
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field
• 8+ years of experience
Preferred:
• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree
• Expert-level experience in government or industry in ML/AI and agentic development
• Experience Integrating solutions using ML/AI technologies
• Demonstrated senior level experience leading technical integration efforts
• Demonstrated senior level experience leading multi-system integration efforts through requirements definition, development, testing and transition
• Proficiency in Python (FastAPI library familiarity is a plus)
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices using GitLab or similar tools
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• Experience with database management, PostGres, ElasticSearch
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kuberne3tes, Openshift, Helm)
• Experience with version control systems, especially Git and platforms like GitLab for CI/CD
• Proficiency in frontend frameworks (React)
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with state management libraries (Redux, MobX) we are using Redux for state management right now
• Understanding of UI/UX principles
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices using GitLab or similar tools
• Experience with processes, tools, and languages pertaining to ML/AI development
• Experience engineering solutions using structured and unstructured Big Data, AI, and Cloud-based technologies
• Demonstrated senior level experience integrating Geospatial Intelligence systems
• Demonstrated senior level experience in AI engineering and integration of large complex system of systems of service-centric/Cloud environments
Company:
High Side Technology provides engineering, technical, programmatic, and operational military services. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Charleston, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.