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Principal AI Research Scientist

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Position: Principal of AI Research and Development  

   

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Opportunity Overview:   

Do you have a passion for discovering new breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence? Are you an originator passionate about research and applying this research for a small, hungry, expanding business? Do you want to help craft product vision with AI, working closely with other teams to develop whitepapers and build roadmaps for software products? Then this may be the place for you. We work in a hybrid work location culture nationwide to deliver cutting-edge AI-infused software products to our customers.  

  

Position Details     

Salary Range: $200,000+ annually. This is a full-time exempt position.   

Work can be performed at various locations, including remotely or at the company offices in Utica and Rome, NY. For the right candidate, a 100% remote work arrangement is possible.   

Due to the clearance required for this position, only U.S. citizens are eligible to apply; as outlined in Executive Order 12968: Access to Classified Information, eligibility for access to classified information may only be granted to employees who are United States citizens.      

   

Responsibilities and Duties   

This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and has a consistent track record of contributing to the product strategy and roadmap for a complex machine learning problem space. The candidate will:   

  • Conduct creative and inquisitive research and competitive analysis to identify new opportunities in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science 
  • Lead proposal writing for new opportunities with government R&D organizations and/or commercial companies. 
  • Be the internal champion of AI/ML to technical and non-technical partners 
  • Bring your technical expertise and project management skills to become the AI subject matter expert for small teams of researchers and engineers on advanced R&D projects funded by government and commercial customers. 
  • Develop and evaluate algorithms to understand the content multi-modal data, and/or perform reasoning on extracted data. 
  • Contribute to the growth of our portfolio by providing state-of-the-art vision across the board and ensure portfolio roadmap stays relevant and leading edge.
  • Balance pragmatism and product intuition to achieve significant impact for a rapidly growing customer base at global scale
  • Work closely with customers to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into our products
  • Collaborate with external, well-known academic and industry researchers in Machine Learning, AI, computer vision, and natural language processing (NLP).
  • Enjoy support and encouragement for participation in national AI/ML conferences and creating beneficial R&D relationships with other organizations. 

   

Education and Certifications:   

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a PhD in computer science, machine learning, computer programming, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.

   

Required Qualifications:   

  • 5+ years of professional experience in machine learning (including academic experience) 
  • Experience writing grants or competitive proposals for funding 
  • Experience or knowledge of business development 
  • A Proven Entrepreneurial mindset 
  • Passion to continue learning about emerging ML technology  
  • Experience with or knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 
  • Desire to collaborate with other AI subject matter experts and engineering teams 
  • Ability to lead, coach, and mentor junior data scientists and engineers 
  • Experience with advanced data analytics and statistical models and methods
  • Practical applications of machine learning techniques such as Clustering, Logistic Regression, CART, Random Forests, SVM or Neural Networks
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Pytorch, etc. 
  • Experience in evaluating, training, and deploying machine learning models 
  • Experience in Python 
  • Experience with Jupyter Notebooks 
  • Knowledge of Graph Database(s) or Knowledge Graphs 
  • Knowledge or experience in cloud-based computing platforms such as AWS 
  • Knowledge or experience with Agile software development techniques     

Preferred Qualifications:   

  • Basic Experience in Python, Go, and other languages  
  • Experience in gathering and manipulating data for machine learning model training  
  • Knowledge of Resource Description Framework (RDF) and/or ontologies  
  • Familiarity with Nvidia Triton Inference Server  

   

Clearance:   

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and must meet and maintain eligibility requirements for, at minimum, Secret access to classified information.    

   

Travel:   

This position is expected to require 20% travel.  

   

Benefits:   

Our benefits package includes health, life, disability, dental, and vision insurance coverage and a 401(k) policy with a 3% company contribution & 3% company match.    

Other perks include generous Paid Time Off (including a PTO “gift day” for your birthday), 11 Federal Holidays per year, two weeks paid maternity/paternity leave, and annual technology “allowances”.   

Wait! Even more perks include referral bonuses, professional recognition awards, healthcare stipends, tuition/education reimbursement (once certain requirements are met), and flexible daily start and stop times for most projects and positions.   

   

Company Description   

Technergetics is a US-based company headquartered in Utica, NY, with employees and clients located throughout the country.  The Utica/Rome area is a hub of cutting-edge cyber technology research, bolstered by the Griffiss Business & Technology Park’s tenants and facilities, including the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).  At Technergetics, we work with a wide variety of technologies, including mobile and web apps, Quantum computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, AI-enabled edge devices, and many more.   

   

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

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