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At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.MITRE’s Multi-INT AI Engineering Department effectively combines the deep technical knowledge required to develop capabilities with critical domain knowledge to harness and shape those capabilities to meet multiple sponsor mission needs. We have the technical depth and breadth to thrive in mission focused R&D/S&T organizations and the well-earned sponsor credibility to execute work programs relating to research, analysis, prototyping, T&E, etc.We seek motivated individuals who are interested in applying sensors, AI/ML systems, and data engineering for the exploitation of multiple data types to include remote sensing data. Remote Sensing data refers to those collected using infrared imagery (OPIR), hyperspectral imagery (HSI), radar (SAR/GMTI), full motion video (FMV), Wide Are Motion Imagery (WAMI), and 3D data from a range of sources. Roles & Responsibilities:Provide technical leadership by applying data analysis and AI techniques to solve and enhance the sponsor’s mission.Select and evaluate AI models to solve a wide variety of sponsor problems (forecasting, classification, triage). Tailor models for use in production and develop methods to evaluate their effectiveness.Design and implement data normalization and ETL functions to prepare data for studies and further analysis.Define and execute technical studies of data analysis including hypothesis formulation, experiment design and experiment execution with small teams.Propose technical approaches and prototype solutions to validate study concepts and demonstrate mission value.Document and discuss prototypes and study results and to formulate technical approach to transition into wider production use.Basic Qualifications:Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of experience in artificial intelligence with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field; or 6 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of AI-related education and work experience.Hands-on experience fine-tuning, deploying, and evaluating large language models and Agentic AIDemonstrated advanced skills with Python and the standard AI technical stackAbility to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systemsExcellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiencesPer the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.Active TS/SCI with Full Polygraph clearanceThis position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-sitePreferred Qualifications: Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or related disciplinesTrack record of successful deployment of AI/ML systems or components that have been used by customers or stakeholders outside of a lab/experimental settingExperience leading small and medium-sized teams to solve complex technical challengesUnderstanding of TCP/IP networking and common application protocols.Experience deploying robust, optimized solutions through MLOPs pipelinesExperience utilizing in an HPC environment for training large modelsThis requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/PolygraphThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):Top Secret/SCI/PolygraphSalary compensation range and midpoint:$174,000 - $217,500 - $261,000 AnnualWork Location Type:OnsiteCommitment to Non-DiscriminationAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. 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