Senior Research Scientist - Machine Leaning

The role

You will develop disruptive technologies focused on signals exploitation, estimation theory, system resource management, and systems analysis. You will develop AI/ML algorithms for novel application domains and modalities, participate on project teams, and interact with customers.

What you will do

• Develop disruptive technologies focused on signals exploitation, estimation theory, system resource management, and systems analysis
• Develop cutting edge AI/ML algorithms for novel application domains and modalities
• Participate on project teams
• Interact with customers
• Explore datasets
• Develop cutting-edge algorithmic techniques
• Solve high-impact, unique problems for customers

Required qualifications

• BS + 5 years, MS + 3 years, PhD or equivalent experience in a scientific field such as applied math, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, or data science
• Experience building and training neural networks using standard deep learning tools (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
• Ability to perform experiment design, modeling/simulation runs, and associated verification and performance analysis using standard analysis tools (e.g. Python)
• Experience with standard data science tools including scikit-learn, Pandas, and Matplotlib
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Python, C/C++
• Ability to work and collaborate on multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to obtain a security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government

Nice to have

• Active US government security clearance
• Experience applying deep learning to domains other than images/text, such as time series, discrete event sequence, or geospatial
• Experience with self-supervised machine learning
• Experience adapting novel machine learning approaches (e.g., from academic literature) to new data sets and problems
• Able to communicate technical foundations of models and algorithms to technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise working with time series, geospatial, and/or spatio-temporal data

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government to obtain a security clearance
• Positions require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws

About the company

STR is a growing technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security. The company has locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, Carlsbad, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Denver, CO.