Director, Applied AI & Geospatial Intelligence

Vantor (Maxar Intelligence); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking a seasoned leader for Applied AI Science to guide geospatial AI initiatives, multimodal models, and agentic AI adoption. You will shape roadmaps, drive experimentation, and ensure scalable, auditable AI systems across product and operations.

You will collaborate with research, product, engineering, and sales to deliver AI-enabled capabilities with real-world impact for customers and decision-makers.

Qualifications

• Must have MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, data science, AI engineering, decision science, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Experience building, deploying, and operating production AI/ML systems with measurable impact.
• Strong depth in multimodal AI, vision-language models, LLMs, reasoning systems, agentic AI, geospatial AI, remote sensing, predictive modeling, causal inference, experimentation, or large-scale ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of Applied AI Scientists.
• Define and execute the Applied AI Science roadmap translating customer/market needs into priorities.
• Guide design and productionalization of AI-driven applications for actionable insights and decision intelligence.
• Champion adoption of agentic AI as a force multiplier across the organization.
• Oversee end-to-end ML pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, training, evaluation, inference, monitoring, and retraining.

Skills

Geospatial AI

Multimodal learning

LLMs

Reasoning systems

Agentic AI

Production ML

Education

MS or PhD in CS/ML/AI/Applied Math/Statistics

Tools

Cloud ML platforms

Distributed training

Containerized deployment

Model serving

Experiment tracking

Data pipelines

Job description

Vantor is seeking a seasoned leader for Applied AI Science to guide geospatial AI initiatives, multimodal models, and agentic AI adoption. You will shape roadmaps, drive experimentation, and ensure scalable, auditable AI systems across product and operations.

You will collaborate with research, product, engineering, and sales to deliver AI-enabled capabilities with real-world impact for customers and decision-makers.