Senior Research Scientist

5 months ago

Burlington, MA, USASenior

Base Salary

$114k - $165k/yr

Responsibilities

Develop and implement software, prototype models and simulations, and conduct experimentation for applied R&D projects.
Design, train, fine-tune, evaluate, test, and deploy end-to-end ML/AI and simulation-driven software systems.
Perform software system testing and validation for prototype deployment.
Work with multidisciplinary academic, industry, research, engineering, and operational teams on autonomous systems, robotics, sensing, communications, and decision-support applications.
Contribute technical software expertise to application areas, technical planning, system architecture decisions, proposals, publications, and whitepapers.

Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or a closely related field.
At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience focused on machine learning and AI systems development.
Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML/AI development workflows, with experience using PyTorch for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and experimentation.
Experience with end-to-end ML/AI or simulation-driven software systems, databases, HPC or distributed computing, GPUs, and cloud environments.
Experience with relational and graph databases, including PostgreSQL/SQL and technologies such as Neo4j or Memgraph.
Strong software engineering fundamentals in modular design, testing, documentation, version control, and reproducibility.
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree; government, defense, or security R&D experience; simulation, network science, graph analytics, geospatial, RAG, vector database, frontend, and MLOps experience.

Benefits include multiple retirement plan options with generous matching, tuition waiver and assistance for classes and advanced degree programs, medical, vision, dental, paid time off, wellness and life benefits, and commuting and transportation benefits.
The primary office is located at Northeastern University's Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts.

11-50 employees