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Transform Defense Acquisition into a strategic advantage.
Forward Deployed Data Scientist
Location
Pennsylvania + 1 moreAll locations: Pennsylvania | Virginia
Posted
98 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Forward Deployed Data Scientist
Govini
• 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. • Take end-to-end ownership of client problems.
Job Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- This role may require up to 75% travel.
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