Principal AI Research Scientist

 

 

 

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: